Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Self, Wealth

• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Patriotic, Deities, Wealth

  1928 Speech, Boston, 11 Jun.

• Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Humanity, Toil, Extravagance

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

• We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Honor, Charity, Want

• History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Class, People

• Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Wealth, Justified, Ends

  "The Resonant Words, and Wisdom, of 'Silent Cal'" by Carl M. Cannon, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 07, 2015.

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