black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.

Calvin Coolidge

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Attention Important Men Problem Serious
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Forget Nation People War
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Bills Goodness Important Man
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Government People Rule
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Cold Employment
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Responsibility Right Simplicity
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Effort Growth Intellectual Work
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Deal Education Greatness Men Science
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Government Ideal
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

Care Problem Simplicity
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
The final solution for unemployment is work.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Government Job Solution
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Country Evil Goodness

You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Calvin Coolidge Quotes