Quotes

“One with the law is a majority.” Calvin Coolidge

“You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.” Calvin Coolidge

“After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.” Calvin Coolidge

“When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.” Calvin Coolidge

“When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.” Calvin Coolidge

“Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.” Calvin Coolidge

“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.” Calvin Coolidge

“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.” Calvin Coolidge

“If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.” Calvin Coolidge

“Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.” Calvin Coolidge

“Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.” Calvin Coolidge

“In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.” Calvin Coolidge

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“People protect what they love.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.” Jacques Yves Cousteau

“The sea is the universal sewer.” Jacques Yves Cousteau