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

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.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

The world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Duty is not collective; it is personal.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

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.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

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

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.

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

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

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

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

The business of America is business.

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

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

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.

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

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

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

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

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.

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

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

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

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.