Calvin Coolidge

(48 votes)   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
American, President Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(40 votes)   Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

Calvin Coolidge
American, President Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

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

Calvin Coolidge
American, President Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(15 votes)   When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Calvin Coolidge
American, President Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(5 votes)   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
American, President Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(288 votes)   Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men 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.

Calvin Coolidge
1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(167 votes)   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.

Calvin Coolidge

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(113 votes)   No one every listened themselves out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge
1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(106 votes)   Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

Calvin Coolidge
American, President Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(101 votes)   All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

Calvin Coolidge

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(94 votes)   Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Calvin Coolidge
American, President Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(85 votes)   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.

Calvin Coolidge

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(78 votes)   The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.

Calvin Coolidge
1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(73 votes)   Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.

Calvin Coolidge

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(55 votes)   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
American, President Quotes

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website