Calvin Coolidge

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

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

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

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.

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

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.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

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.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

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.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

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

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.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.