Calvin Coolidge: Old Thoughts but Forever Truths

President Calvin Coolidge Quotes that are "Old Thoughts but Forever Truths."

"Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good."

"We do not need more national development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."

​"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States

I have just finished reading Volume I of "The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life." It is amazing how just reading a few of the thoughts of a man or woman can be enough to make me wonder why I was never taught more about great men and women of American history … or, maybe, to keep the blame where it best rests: Why I have been negligent in my studies until I am an old man who can see the end of days ahead? ​Do not waste thy youth, young man or woman!

Peter E. Greulich