American - President | July 4, 1872 - January 5, 1933
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
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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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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.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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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.
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The business of America is business.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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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.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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