Top 200 Calvin Coolidge Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “IT is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try. The more I see of life the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.”

— Calvin Coolidge

202. “There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.”

— Calvin Coolidge

203. “After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.”

— Calvin Coolidge

204. “The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.”

— Calvin Coolidge

205. “A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government...”

— Calvin Coolidge

206. “We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.”

— Calvin Coolidge

207. “It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion.”

— Calvin Coolidge

208. “I always enjoy animal acts.”

— Calvin Coolidge

209. “Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?”

— Calvin Coolidge

210. “The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.”

— Calvin Coolidge

211. “The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately. It would be exceedingly easy to set the country all by the ears and foment hatreds and jealousies, which, by destroying faith and confidence, would help nobody and harm everybody. The end would be the destruction of all progress.”

— Calvin Coolidge

212. “It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.”

— Calvin Coolidge

213. “While we should not refuse to spend and be spent in the service of our country, it is hazardous to attempt what we feel is beyond our strength to accomplish.”

— Calvin Coolidge

214. “It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.”

— Calvin Coolidge

215. “It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.”

— Calvin Coolidge

216. “Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.”

— Calvin Coolidge

217. “We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.”

— Calvin Coolidge

218. “In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge

220. “It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.”

— Calvin Coolidge

221. “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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

222. “I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.”

— Calvin Coolidge

223. “To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase production while decreasing consumption is to fly in the face of an economic law as well established as any law of nature.”

— Calvin Coolidge

224. “A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.”

— Calvin Coolidge

225. “Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.”

— Calvin Coolidge

226. “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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

227. “We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.”

— Calvin Coolidge

228. “It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion.”

— Calvin Coolidge

229. “Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.”

— Calvin Coolidge

230. “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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge

232. “That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.”

— Calvin Coolidge

233. “Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.”

— Calvin Coolidge