Calvin Coolidge Quotes

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.

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.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

[Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ...combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

Well, they’re going to elect that Stupid Hoover, and he’s going to have some trouble. He’s going to have to spend money, but it won’t be enough. Then the Democrats will come in. But they don’t know anything about money.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. That state is most fortunate in its form of government which has the aptest instruments for the discovery of law.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.