Calvin Coolidge Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Calvin Coolidge:

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Calvin Coolidge

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.

Calvin Coolidge

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Calvin Coolidge

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Calvin Coolidge

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.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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.

Calvin Coolidge

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.

Calvin Coolidge

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Calvin Coolidge

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Calvin Coolidge

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

The business of America is business.

Calvin Coolidge

One with the law is a majority.

Calvin Coolidge

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.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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.

Calvin Coolidge

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.

Calvin Coolidge

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Calvin Coolidge

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

Calvin Coolidge

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Calvin Coolidge

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Calvin Coolidge

Advertising is the life of trade.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Calvin Coolidge

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Calvin Coolidge