Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

The following are quotes from 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.

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them.

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.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

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

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

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.

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

The chief business of the American people is business.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

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