Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. (Calvin Coolidge)
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. (Calvin Coolidge)
We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again. (Calvin Coolidge)
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. (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)
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. (Calvin Coolidge)
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat 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)
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. (Calvin Coolidge)
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. (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)
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. (Calvin Coolidge)
Not all those who are attempting to conduct successful businesses are profiteers (Calvin Coolidge)