Calvin Coolidge

A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

Calvin Coolidge

Advertising is the life of trade.

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.

Calvin Coolidge

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

Calvin Coolidge

Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not denial of the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men.

Calvin Coolidge

Don’t hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don’t hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Calvin Coolidge

Don’t you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?

Calvin Coolidge

Duty is not collective; it is personal.

Calvin Coolidge