Top 100 Quotes About Calvin Coolidge
#1. The most remarkable thing about Calvin Coolidge is that he served for 67 months, and when he left office, the budget was lower than he came in. In real terms - in nominal terms with vanilla on top - he cut the budget year over year.
Amity Shlaes
#2. I've heard this attributed to Calvin Coolidge. "Behold the turtle. He never gets anywhere unless he sticks his neck out.
Mike Coyle
#3. Calvin Coolidge, "There is no right to strike against the public safety, by anybody, anywhere, at any time." In
Bill O'Reilly
#4. On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
Dorothy Parker
#5. The Business of Our Firm is Business"
-Donald W. Hudspeth from:
"The Business of America is Business"
-Calvin Coolidge
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#6. He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
Will Rogers
#7. Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
Clarence Darrow
#8. Why, I make more money than-than-than Calvin Coolidge, put together!
Jean Hagen
#9. [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
#10. In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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#12. History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.
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#15. 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.
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#16. It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport.
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#18. Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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#19. We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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#20. I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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#21. Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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#22. There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men!
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#23. What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!
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#24. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#28. There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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#29. 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.
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#30. The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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#31. The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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#32. If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.
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#33. Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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#34. I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.
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#35. One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.
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#36. Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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#37. If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government ... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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#38. Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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#39. One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.
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#40. There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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#41. The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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#42. If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
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#43. [The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.
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#44. 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.
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#45. It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
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#46. They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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#47. Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.
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#48. 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
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#49. Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,
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#50. If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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#51. [Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ... combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
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#52. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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#53. What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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#54. 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
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#55. School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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#56. The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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#57. Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.
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#58. We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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#59. Look well to the hearthstone; therein all hope for America lies.
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#60. 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.
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#61. It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion.
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#62. 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.
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#63. It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.
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#64. The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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#65. It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address.
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#66. Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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#68. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
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#70. Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.
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#71. A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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#72. When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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#73. While we should not refuse to spend and be spent in the service of our country, it is hazardous to attempt what we feel is beyond our strength to accomplish.
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#74. It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.
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#75. We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.
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#76. Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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#77. The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men
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#78. American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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#79. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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#80. Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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#81. I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.
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#82. A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government ...
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#83. 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.
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#84. It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.
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#85. Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?
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#86. Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.
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#87. The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.
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#88. One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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#89. Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because ... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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#90. Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.
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#91. The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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#92. Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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#93. If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible
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#94. No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.
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#95. Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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#97. We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.
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#98. These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.
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#99. I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.
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#100. The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them.
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