Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

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.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

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

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.