Quotes from Calvin Coolidge

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort and effort means work.

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

If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure 9 will go in the ditch and you have only one to battle with.

We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren scepter in our grasp.

I have often said that there was no cause for feeling disturbed at being misrepresented in the press. It would be only when they began to say things detrimental to me which were true that I should feel alarm.

Fate bestows its rewards on those who put themselves in the proper attitude to receive them.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

So far as each individual is concerned all he can do is to take the abilities he has and make the most of them. His power over the past is gone. His power over the future depends on what he does with himself in the present. If he wishes to live and progress he must work.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, . . . the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.

No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.

One with the law is a majority.