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There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
By Calvin Coolidge
While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national e...
By 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.
By Calvin Coolidge
We thought we were made for each other. For almost a quarter of a century she has borne with my infirmities, and I have rejoiced in her graces...
By Calvin Coolidge
Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the...
By Calvin Coolidge
These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.
By Calvin Coolidge
There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange f...
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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeit...
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It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace...
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I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.
By Calvin Coolidge
I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man...
By Calvin Coolidge
I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you fin...
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[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeur at another ...
By 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.
By 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.
By 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.
By Calvin Coolidge
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
By Calvin Coolidge
My own participation in the campaign was delayed by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on the seventh of July. He was a boy of much promise, proficient in his studies, with a scholarly mind, who had just turned sixteen. He had a remarkable insight into things. The day I became President he had just started to work in a tobacco field. When one of his fellow laborers said to him, if my father was President I would not work in a tobacco field, Calvin replied, If my father were your father, you would.... We do not know what might have happened to him under other circumstances, but if I had not been President, he would not have raised a blister on his toe, which resulted in blood poisoning, playing lawn tennis in the South Grounds.In his suffering he was asking me to make him well. I could not. When he went the power and the glory of the Presidency went with him. The ways of Providence are often beyond our understanding. It seemed to me that the world had need of the work that it was probable he could do. I do not know why such a price was exacted for occupying the White House.
By Calvin Coolidge
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
By Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
By 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 derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
By 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.
By Calvin Coolidge
The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
By Calvin Coolidge