Calvin Coolidge

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.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

Industry, thrift and self control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

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

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.

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

It takes a great man to be a good listener.