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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers

By Calvin Coolidge
It takes a great man to be a good listener

By Calvin Coolidge
It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.

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

By Calvin Coolidge
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it

By Calvin Coolidge
If there has been any crime, it must be prosecuted. If there has been any property of the United States illegally transferred or leased, it must be recovered. I propose to employ special counsel of high rank drawn from both political parties to bring such actions for the enforcement of the law. Counsel will be instructed to prosecute these cases in the courts so that if there is any guilt it will be punished; if there is any civil liability it will be enforced; if there is any fraud it will be revealed; and if there are any contracts which are illegal they will be canceled. Every law will be enforced. And every right of the people and the Government will be protected.

By 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

By 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.

By Calvin Coolidge
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them

By Calvin Coolidge
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them.

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

By Calvin Coolidge
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done

By Calvin Coolidge
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion

By Calvin Coolidge
Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but dont be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but dont be a demagogue. Dont hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Dont hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Dont expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Dont hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.

By Calvin Coolidge
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

By Calvin Coolidge
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.

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

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

By Calvin Coolidge
After all, the chief business of the American people is business.

By Calvin Coolidge
Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

By Calvin Coolidge
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

By Calvin Coolidge
It takes a great man to be a good listener.

By Calvin Coolidge