Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Calvin Coolidge More Quotes by Calvin Coolidge More Quotes From Calvin Coolidge Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Calvin Coolidge persistenceperseverancedetermination Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge successmotivationalinspirational Advertising is the life of trade. Calvin Coolidge advertisingtradebusiness It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. Calvin Coolidge religiousworshipmen When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. Calvin Coolidge unemploymentworkpeople Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House. Calvin Coolidge dogwhitemen There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means. Calvin Coolidge freedommoneymean 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 progresscongratulationsfailure Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Calvin Coolidge levelscivilizationlooks There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning. Calvin Coolidge educationmenscience I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny. Calvin Coolidge independentdestinyfreedom No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors. Calvin Coolidge equalityrightsideas We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither. Calvin Coolidge governmentcivilizationamerica A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it. Calvin Coolidge articlesshowslost Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny. Calvin Coolidge destinydesiremen Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application. Calvin Coolidge failingcapacitypeople Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. Calvin Coolidge memorial-daypatriotichero The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them. Calvin Coolidge republicrewardsdoubt Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply. Calvin Coolidge xenophobiaaliensneeds One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . . Calvin Coolidge divisiongovernmentpractice
