Best 295 quotes of Calvin Coolidge on MyQuotes

A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Advertising is the life of trade.

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.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade.

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.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

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

A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

All growth depends upon activity.

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

A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.

America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.

America has many glories. The last one that she would wish to surrender is the glory of the men who have served her in war. While such devotion lives, the nation is secure. Whatever dangers may threaten from within or without, she can view them calmly. Turning to her veterans, she can say: 'These are our defenders. They are invincible. In them is our safety.'

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.

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.

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

Character is the only secure foundation of the state.

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.

Civilisation and profits go hand in hand.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the right of the individual to liberty and equality is admitted, there is no escape from the conclusion that he alone is entitled to the rewards of his own industry. Any other conclusion would necessarily imply either privilege or servitude.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine.

Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

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

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important and that his work well done is a part of an unending plan.

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

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

Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.

Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.

Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source by their very nature is in the people. The people have to bear their own responsibilities. There is no method by which that burden can be shifted to the government. It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

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

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

I always enjoy animal acts.

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.