Quotes from Calvin Coolidge

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

Life is so much when we focus on what truly matters.

More people out of work leads to higher unemployment.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.