Top 60 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

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.

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.

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.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.