A biography for Calvin Coolidgehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”
“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
“You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.”
“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.”
“When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.”
“Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.”
“If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.”
“The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.”
“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.”
“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”
“את הפסדת.”
“האמרה 'המשך קדימה' פתרה בעבר ותמשיך לפתור את בעיות המין האנושי.”
“צריך להיות אדם גדול כדי להקשיב היטב לזולת.”
“שום דבר בעולם אינו יכול להחליף את ההתמדה.”