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.

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

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

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

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

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.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

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.

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

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

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