Calvin Coolidge

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.Calvin Coolidge

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.Calvin Coolidge

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

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.Calvin Coolidge

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.Calvin Coolidge

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.Calvin Coolidge

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.Calvin Coolidge

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

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

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.Calvin Coolidge

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.Calvin Coolidge

It takes a great man to be a good listener.Calvin Coolidge

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.Calvin Coolidge

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

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.Calvin Coolidge

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.Calvin Coolidge

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.Calvin Coolidge

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.Calvin Coolidge

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

The business of America is business.Calvin Coolidge

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.Calvin Coolidge

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

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.Calvin Coolidge

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.Calvin Coolidge

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

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge was a famous 30th President of the United States, who was born on July 4, 1872. As a person born on this date, Calvin Coolidge is listed in our database as the 5th most popular celebrity for the day (July 4) and the 1st most popular for the year (1872).

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