Calvin Coolidge Quotes

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

The chief business of the American people is business.

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.

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

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

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

The final solution for unemployment is work.

I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

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

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

The country is not in good condition.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

The business of America is business.

One with the law is a majority.

You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

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

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

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.

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

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

The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

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

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.

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

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.

A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone.

Civilisation and profits go hand in hand.

Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

I always enjoy animal acts.

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.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

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.

The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.