Calvin Coolidge

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

"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."

"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."

"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."

"It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow."

"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."

"No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist."

"No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war."

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

"One with the law is a majority."

"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."

"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."

"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."

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