406 Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."

"Education should be the handmaid of citizenship."

"It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising."

"[Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ...combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China."

"If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure."

"Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance."

"The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility."

"I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person might hold. It is a fundamental tenet of our institutions that people have a right to believe what they want to believe and hold such opinions as they want to hold without having to answer to anyone for their private opinion."

"Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade."

"The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom."