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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
— Calvin Coolidge
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
— Calvin Coolidge
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
— Calvin Coolidge
Silence can never be misquoted.
— Calvin Coolidge
The nation which forgets it defenders will be itself forgotten.
— Calvin Coolidge
The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.
— Calvin Coolidge
Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.
— Calvin Coolidge
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
— Calvin Coolidge
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
— Calvin Coolidge
Advertising is the life of trade.
— Calvin Coolidge
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible
— Calvin Coolidge
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
— Calvin Coolidge
America has but one main problem
the character of the men and women it shall produce. — Calvin Coolidge
the character of the men and women it shall produce. — Calvin Coolidge
War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.
— Calvin Coolidge
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
— Calvin Coolidge
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
— Calvin Coolidge
It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.
— Calvin Coolidge
[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.
— Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
— Calvin Coolidge
There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.
— Calvin Coolidge
Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.
— Calvin Coolidge
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
— Calvin Coolidge
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
— Calvin Coolidge
I do not choose to run for President in 1928.
— Calvin Coolidge
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
— Calvin Coolidge
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.
— Calvin Coolidge
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
— Calvin Coolidge
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
— Calvin Coolidge
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
— Calvin Coolidge
The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.
— Calvin Coolidge
Nordics deteriorate when mixed with other races.
— Calvin Coolidge
Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.
— Calvin Coolidge
There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.
— Calvin Coolidge
The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
— Calvin Coolidge
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
— Calvin Coolidge
Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,
— Calvin Coolidge
Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.
— Calvin Coolidge
No person was ever honored for what he recieved. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
— Calvin Coolidge
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
— Calvin Coolidge
We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.
— Calvin Coolidge
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
— Calvin Coolidge
It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.
— Calvin Coolidge
I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.
— Calvin Coolidge
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
— Calvin Coolidge
It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine.
— Calvin Coolidge
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
— Calvin Coolidge
I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.
— Calvin Coolidge
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
— Calvin Coolidge
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
— Calvin Coolidge
Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
— Calvin Coolidge
Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not denial of the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men.
— Calvin Coolidge
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.
— Calvin Coolidge
Life is one darn thing after another.
— Calvin Coolidge
You don't have to explain something you never said.
— Calvin Coolidge
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
— Calvin Coolidge
Character is the only secure foundation of the state.
— Calvin Coolidge
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
— Calvin Coolidge
[Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ... combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
— Calvin Coolidge
As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.
— Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
— Clarence Darrow
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
— Calvin Coolidge
No one ever lost his job by listening too much.
— Calvin Coolidge
You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
— Calvin Coolidge
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
— Calvin Coolidge
You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.
— Calvin Coolidge
There is no substitute for a militant freedom.
— Calvin Coolidge
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
— Calvin Coolidge
Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?
— Calvin Coolidge
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
— Calvin Coolidge
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
— Calvin Coolidge
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
— Calvin Coolidge
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
— Calvin Coolidge
The Business of Our Firm is Business"
-Donald W. Hudspeth from:
"The Business of America is Business"
-Calvin Coolidge — Calvin Coolidge
-Donald W. Hudspeth from:
"The Business of America is Business"
-Calvin Coolidge — Calvin Coolidge
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
— Calvin Coolidge
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.
— Calvin Coolidge
The things I never say never get me into trouble.
— Calvin Coolidge
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
— Calvin Coolidge
Inflation is repudiation.
— Calvin Coolidge
A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.
— Calvin Coolidge
The world is full of educated derelicts
— Calvin Coolidge
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
— Calvin Coolidge
Economy is idealism in its most practical form.
— Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, "There is no right to strike against the public safety, by anybody, anywhere, at any time." In
— Bill O'Reilly
Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.
— Calvin Coolidge
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
— Calvin Coolidge
Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.
— Calvin Coolidge
Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.
— Calvin Coolidge
The business of the country is business.
— Calvin Coolidge
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
— Calvin Coolidge
We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!
— Calvin Coolidge
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
— Calvin Coolidge
The business of America is business.
— Calvin Coolidge