Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

About Calvin Coolidge:

John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action. Soon after, he was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small government conservative, and also as a man who said very little, although having a fair sense of humor.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

Duty is not collective; it is personal.

Calvin Coolidge

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Calvin Coolidge

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Calvin Coolidge

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.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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.

Calvin Coolidge

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

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.

Calvin Coolidge

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Calvin Coolidge

Author Bio

  • NameCalvin Coolidge
  • DescriptionAmerican politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
  • AliasesJohn Calvin Coolidge Jr.
  • BornJuly 4, 1872
  • DiedJanuary 5, 1933
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer