406 Quotes by 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."

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

"Civilization and profit go hand in hand."

"One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived."

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

"Life is one darn thing after another."

"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."

"You can't increase prosperity by taxing success."

"Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent."

"There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed."