Calvin Coolidge Quotes

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

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

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

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.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

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.

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.

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.