110+ Calvin Coolidge Quotes On Persistence, Taxes And Government

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. He was known for his conservative economic policies and his opposition to labor unions. He was also known for his "Silent Cal" nickname, due to his quiet demeanor and reluctance to speak publicly. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Calvin Coolidge on persistence, taxes, government.

Top 10 Calvin Coolidge Quotes

1. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
2. It takes a great man to be a good listener.
3. You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
4. The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
5. 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.
6. Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
7. 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.
8. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
9. Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
10. Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Calvin Coolidge Short Quotes

• Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
• Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
• The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
• What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
• We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
• Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
• Duty is not collective; it is personal.
• In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
• I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Persistence

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. — Calvin Coolidge

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. — Calvin Coolidge

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Calvin Coolidge

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. — Calvin Coolidge

The world is full of educated derelicts. — Calvin Coolidge

In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication. — Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Taxes

A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude. — Calvin Coolidge

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them. — Calvin Coolidge

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil — Calvin Coolidge

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success. — Calvin Coolidge

As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them. — Calvin Coolidge

Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad. — Calvin Coolidge

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more. — Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Government

We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong. — Calvin Coolidge

Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. — Calvin Coolidge

If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure. — Calvin Coolidge

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country. — Calvin Coolidge

No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline. — Calvin Coolidge

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

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. — Calvin Coolidge

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies. — Calvin Coolidge

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance. — Calvin Coolidge

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government. — Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Education

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship. — Calvin Coolidge

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning. — Calvin Coolidge

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them! — Calvin Coolidge

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls. — Calvin Coolidge

To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity. — Calvin Coolidge

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education. — Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Business

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. — Calvin Coolidge

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. — Calvin Coolidge

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. — Calvin Coolidge

It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business. — Calvin Coolidge

The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism. — Calvin Coolidge

The business of the country is business. — Calvin Coolidge

It 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. — Calvin Coolidge

Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business. — Calvin Coolidge

The chief business of the American people is business. — Calvin Coolidge

Business will be either better or worse. — Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge Quotes About People

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. — Calvin Coolidge

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant. — Calvin Coolidge

The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free. — Calvin Coolidge

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

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

We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither. — Calvin Coolidge

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. — 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. — Calvin Coolidge

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

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application. — Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Work

Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it. — Calvin Coolidge

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

Faith 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. — Calvin Coolidge

Knowledge 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. — Calvin Coolidge

All growth depends upon activity. — Calvin Coolidge

The final solution for unemployment is work. — Calvin Coolidge

The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility. — Calvin Coolidge

Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief. — Calvin Coolidge

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish. — Calvin Coolidge

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is 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. — Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Public

Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. — Calvin Coolidge

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. — Calvin Coolidge

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. — Calvin Coolidge

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press. — Calvin Coolidge

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. — Calvin Coolidge

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them. — Calvin Coolidge

Public debt [is] a burden on all the people. — Calvin Coolidge

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose. — Calvin Coolidge

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it. — Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them. — Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Results

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

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

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results. — Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge Famous Quotes And Sayings

Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest. — 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. — Calvin Coolidge

Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed. — Calvin Coolidge

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

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself. — Calvin Coolidge

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

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply. — Calvin Coolidge

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

They 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. — Calvin Coolidge

Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat. — Calvin Coolidge

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done. — Calvin Coolidge

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

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness. — Calvin Coolidge

There'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! — Calvin Coolidge

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. — Calvin Coolidge

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

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality. — Calvin Coolidge

The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. ... The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all. — Calvin Coolidge

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible — Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer. — Calvin Coolidge

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

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

If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you. — Calvin Coolidge

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

If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice. — Calvin Coolidge

I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman preeminent in the history of our nation who did not reach their place through toil. I cannot think of anything that represents the American people as a whole so adequately as honest work. — Calvin Coolidge

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

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

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations. — Calvin Coolidge

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. — Calvin Coolidge

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. — Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Advertising is the life of trade. — Calvin Coolidge

The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty. — Calvin Coolidge

In 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. — Calvin Coolidge

Civilization and profits go hand in hand. — Calvin Coolidge

Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity. — Calvin Coolidge

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government. — Calvin Coolidge

Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind. — 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. — Calvin Coolidge

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. — Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights. — Calvin Coolidge

Inflation is repudiation. — Calvin Coolidge

We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. — Calvin Coolidge

It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization. — Calvin Coolidge

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny. — 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. — Calvin Coolidge

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free. — Calvin Coolidge

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity. — Calvin Coolidge

No one every listened themselves out of a job. — Calvin Coolidge

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

Life Lessons by Calvin Coolidge

1. Calvin Coolidge taught that hard work and determination are essential to achieving success. He believed that taking responsibility for one's actions and being honest and trustworthy are important qualities of a leader.
2. Coolidge also taught the value of humility, believing that it is important to stay grounded and not let success go to one's head. He was known for his frugality and his dedication to public service.
3. Finally, Coolidge believed that it is important to be decisive and take action when necessary, instead of waiting for the perfect time to act. He also believed in the importance of compromise in order to reach a consensus.