Calvin Coolidge Quotes

I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.

The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle.

The long view counts.

I wish twenty-four hours, a good night's sleep and a day spent in the open air could always elapse before any government officials take action on matters of grave importance.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time -- or never.

We must be patient if we would act wisely. What we do today may bear fruit long after we are dead, for no good work is ever really lost. The important thing is to get the tendency right. We should think of all these subjects in terms not of brief individual life, but long continued national life.

I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

You know, growing up in the cattle business, I know a lot about cattle.

Make a habit of two things—to help, or at least to do no harm.

Where great evils lie on all sides, it is very difficult to follow the best counsel.

This I hope will be the age of experiment in government.

Patience is also a form of action.

I can solve every problem a year later.

If you don’t have thirty years for a problem, don’t get involved in social policy.

Sometimes it is better to delay.

The statesman must weigh the rewards of success against the penalties of failure. And he is permitted only one guess.

He who is shipwrecked the second time, cannot lay the blame on Neptune

A good policy badly executed becomes a bad policy.

What is done from necessity involves neither censure nor applause

You need to figure out other societies, where they came from, what the people believe in, what they do, how their ethnic divisions work, which is often very different from our own; then design your policies around that. Pay attention. I think that's the simple answer, which is just to realize that not everybody is like the United States. Whether you study history or sociology, or anthropology, journalism, there's room for seeing there are other cultures and other ways and other structures.

I’d rather be slow and right, than be fast and dead.

Over time, the best politics are policies that actually work …. Others in the White House are looking for short term political victories. The political hacks are just doing their jobs.

Providing the vision is easy. Getting policy right is hard. The hard thing about the modern world is doing it. The world is changing so fast.

Life's most important questions are, for the most part, nothing but probability problems.

The Pakistanis can get milk from a bull.