Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

Quotes

• The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

• The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

• Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

• Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

• If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

• I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done.

• Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

• All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

• 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.

• I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

• Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

• The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

• We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

• We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

• There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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

• Advertising is the life of trade.

• If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.