Calvin Coolidge
- Country : United States
- Profession :Prosperous Farmer, Storekeeper, and Public Servant.
- DOB: 1872-06-04
Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, led with a quiet and conservative style during the 1920s. Born in 1872 in Plymouth, Vermont, Coolidge was a lawyer before entering politics. He served as Governor of Massachusetts and Vice President before ascending to the presidency in 1923 following Warren G. Harding’s death. Coolidge is known for his fiscal conservatism and limited government approach, which defined his presidency during a time of economic prosperity known as the “Roaring Twenties.” His famous motto was “The business of America is business.” Coolidge chose not to seek re-election in 1928 and retired from politics, leaving a legacy of restrained government intervention.
But this does not detract from the wisdom of his faith in the people and his constant insistence that they be left to manage their own affairs.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThose who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of the Revolutionary fathers
Author: Calvin CoolidgeFate bestows its rewards on those who put themselves in the proper attitude to receive them
Author: Calvin CoolidgeIt is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeWherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeIt seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine
Author: Calvin CoolidgeIt is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new
Author: Calvin CoolidgeIt has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThe more I see of life, the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThere was a touch of mysticism and poetry in her nature which made her love to gaze at the purple sunsets and watch the evening stars
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThere is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThis country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThese things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThe appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until someone is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThere’s more, much more, to Christmas than candlelight and cheer. It’s the spirit of sweet friendship that brightens all year. It’s thoughtfulness and kindness. It’s hope reborn again, for peace, for understanding, and for goodwill to men
Author: Calvin CoolidgeWe need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons
Author: Calvin CoolidgeRealizing that we cannot live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed our resources and our counsel to the relief of the suffering and the settlement of the disputes among the European nations. Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThe benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all
Author: Calvin CoolidgeAmerican ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied
Author: Calvin CoolidgeI think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I’ll go along with them
Author: Calvin CoolidgeWe do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTo cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeIf you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThey are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeSome people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThe 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
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThe business of America is business, and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism
Author: Calvin CoolidgeNo matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end, they come out of the people who toil. It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the government every time an appropriation bill is passed. The people pay the expense of the government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living. I want taxes to be less, so that the people may have more
Author: Calvin CoolidgeWhen a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeDon’t hurry to legislate. Give the administration a chance to catch up with legislation
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThere is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes
Author: Calvin CoolidgeIt seems to me probable that of all our economic life—the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate—is advertising
Author: Calvin CoolidgeWhile 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 experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage
Author: Calvin CoolidgeIn other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope—nothing of man
Author: Calvin CoolidgeChanging a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard—you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them
Author: Calvin CoolidgeMass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeEconomics is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow
Author: Calvin CoolidgeKnowledge 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
Author: Calvin CoolidgeWorkmen’s compensation, hours, and conditions of labor are cold consolations if there is no employment
Author: Calvin CoolidgeAll growth depends upon activity. There is no development, physically or intellectually, without effort; and effort means work.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeI favor the policy of the economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people
Author: Calvin CoolidgeWe 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
Author: Calvin CoolidgeNo 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.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeAny man who does not like dogs and wants them about, does not deserve to be in the White House.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThe right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeUntil we can re-establish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty
Author: Calvin CoolidgeIndustry, thrift, and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThere is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.”
Author: Calvin CoolidgeI want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeI sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThere are only two main theories of government in our world. One rests on righteousness and the other on force. One appeals to reason, and the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in the republic, the other is represented by despotism
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThose who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThe 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
Author: Calvin CoolidgeIn 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.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeDemocracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not deny the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThere is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of man
Author: Calvin CoolidgeAdvertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is a 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.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeMen speak of natural rights, but I challenge anyone 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
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTo live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race
Author: Calvin CoolidgePerhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business
Author: Calvin CoolidgePeace, justice, humanity, charity—these cannot be legislated into being. They are the result of divine grace.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeWe 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
Author: Calvin CoolidgeNo 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.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThey criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeWealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity
Author: Calvin CoolidgePatriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country
Author: Calvin CoolidgeFaith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important; and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeDon’t you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThe only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeThe slogan, ‘Press On!’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race
Author: Calvin CoolidgeNo person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave
Author: Calvin CoolidgeIf we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct, we shall soon reach a very false conclusion
Author: Calvin CoolidgeIt is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power, we could have little faith in ourselves.
Author: Calvin Coolidge