406 Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

"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."

"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."

"Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live."

"It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating."

"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."