Calvin Coolidge Quotes

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

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

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.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

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

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.

Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

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

One with the law is a majority.

Silence can never be misquoted.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

Duty is not collective; it is personal.

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

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

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

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