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. ”