Calvin Coolidge Quotes

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

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.

The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

The business of America is business.

Advertising is the life of trade.

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

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.

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.

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

Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

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

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

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.