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

Calvin Coolidge

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

Calvin Coolidge

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

Calvin Coolidge

Duty is not collective; it is personal.

Calvin Coolidge

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Calvin Coolidge

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Calvin Coolidge

Advertising is the life of trade.

Calvin Coolidge

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

Calvin Coolidge

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Calvin Coolidge

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Calvin Coolidge

The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

Calvin Coolidge

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.

Calvin Coolidge

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Calvin Coolidge

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

Calvin Coolidge

Why don’t we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

Calvin Coolidge

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Calvin Coolidge