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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 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.

Calvin Coolidge
Business, Educational, Needs

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

Calvin Coolidge
Life, Hurt, Long
"The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century".

The business of the country is business.

Calvin Coolidge
Country, Business

Advertising is the life of trade.

Calvin Coolidge
Business, Advertising, Trade

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.

Calvin Coolidge
Wise, Country, Party
Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

Calvin Coolidge
Character, Needs, More Knowledge
Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.390, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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

Calvin Coolidge
Funny, Witty, Hurt

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

Calvin Coolidge
Leadership, Law, Example
Calvin Coolidge (1920). “Law and Order”

A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.

Calvin Coolidge
Party, Men, Decision
Letter to Charles F. Gardner, August 9, 1924.

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

Calvin Coolidge
Work, Labor, Languish
Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.

Calvin Coolidge
Frugality

One with the law is a majority.

Calvin Coolidge
Law, Majority
Speech accepting Republican vice-presidential nomination, Northampton, Mass., 27 July 1920

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

Calvin Coolidge
Perseverance, Determination, Procrastination

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Calvin Coolidge
Government, Firsts, Students

The chief business of America is business.

Calvin Coolidge
America, Chiefs
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Inflation is repudiation.

Calvin Coolidge
Economy, Inflation
Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.110, The Minerva Group, Inc.

Business will be either better or worse.

Calvin Coolidge
Business

Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

Calvin Coolidge
Country, Military, People
Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.

Calvin Coolidge
Morning, Yield, Sunrise

A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.

Calvin Coolidge
Lost, Shows, Articles

Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.

Calvin Coolidge
Lying, Long Ago, Civilization

Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.

Calvin Coolidge
Science, Civilization, Effort

It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.

Calvin Coolidge
Business, Elements, Advertising

We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.

Calvin Coolidge
Father, Science, Independence

America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

Calvin Coolidge
America, Merit, Purpose
Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925