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

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 Quote

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
- Calvin Coolidge Quote

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

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

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
- Calvin Coolidge Quote

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
- Calvin Coolidge Quote

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

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face 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 Quote

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

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
- Calvin Coolidge Quote

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 Quote

No man ever listened himself out of a job.
- Calvin Coolidge Quote

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

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 Quote

One with the law is a majority.
- Calvin Coolidge Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.
- Calvin Coolidge Quote

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

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

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

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
- Calvin Coolidge Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Calvin Coolidge Quote

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

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

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
- Calvin Coolidge Quote

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
- Calvin Coolidge Quote