Explore Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

One with the law is a majority.

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.

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

Advertising is the life of trade.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

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

I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that 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 more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

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

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

The business of America is business.

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

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.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

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

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.

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