Calvin Coolidge Quotes

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.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

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.

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.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.