3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
