406 Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignityquite so impressive,and no independencequite so important,as living within your means.

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.

The world is full of educated derelicts

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

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

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.

Look well to the hearthstone; therein all hope for America lies.