Explore Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

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

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

All growth depends upon activity.

Silence can never be misquoted.

Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.

The business of the country is business.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.

Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.

It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress.

It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.

Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.