Calvin Coolidg

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Calvin Coolidge


To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Calvin Coolidge


There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Calvin Coolidge


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

Calvin Coolidge


If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

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


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.

Calvin Coolidge


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

Calvin Coolidge


“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”

Calvin Coolidge


“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”

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


“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.”

Calvin Coolidge


“Well, they’re going to elect that Superman Hoover, and he’s going to have some trouble. He’s going to have to spend money, but it won’t be enough. Then the Democrats will come in. But they don’t know anything about money.
[To his Secret Service man, Edmund Starling]”

Calvin Coolidge

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