Calvin Coolidge Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.”

“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.”

“In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.”

“You can't know too much, but you can say too much.”

“One with the law is a majority.”

“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.”

“Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.”

“Civilization and profit go hand in hand.”

“You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.”

“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.”