{"author":"Calvin Coolidge","author_id":"Calvin+Coolidge","total_quotes":63,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Calvin Coolidge","tags":["time","progress","me "],"id":5878,"author_id":"Calvin+Coolidge"},{"text":"The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise  it can be experienced - it can not be told.","author":"Calvin Coolidge","tags":["presidency"],"id":23840,"author_id":"Calvin+Coolidge"},{"text":"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not  nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not  unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not  the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.","author":"Calvin Coolidge","tags":["will","determination"],"id":31646,"author_id":"Calvin+Coolidge"},{"text":"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.","author":"Calvin Coolidge","tags":["growth","effort","development "],"id":32169,"author_id":"Calvin+Coolidge"},{"text":"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.","author":"Calvin Coolidge","tags":["silence"],"id":32362,"author_id":"Calvin+Coolidge"},{"text":"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.","author":"Calvin Coolidge","tags":["america","yourself","easy "],"id":43259,"author_id":"Calvin+Coolidge"},{"text":"The business of America is business.","author":"Calvin Coolidge","tags":["business"],"id":47341,"author_id":"Calvin+Coolidge"},{"text":"They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.","author":"Calvin Coolidge","tags":["government","rule-of-law"],"id":51782,"author_id":"Calvin+Coolidge"},{"text":"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.","author":"Calvin Coolidge","tags":["conservative","government"],"id":52653,"author_id":"Calvin+Coolidge"},{"text":"Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation fails, those who look upon it as a sovereign remedy simply cry out for more legislation.A sound and wise statesmanship which recognizes and attempts to abide by its limitations will undoubtedly find itself displaced by that type of public official who promises much, talks much, legislates much, expends much, but accomplishes little.The deliberate, sound judgement of the country is likely to find it has been superseded by a popular whim.","author":"Calvin Coolidge","tags":["government","legislation","limits-of-government"],"id":57233,"author_id":"Calvin+Coolidge"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":63,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}