Politics Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

Money will not purchase character or good government.

— Calvin Coolidge

“It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.”

— Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

— Calvin Coolidge

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

— Calvin Coolidge

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

— Calvin Coolidge

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

— Calvin Coolidge

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

— Calvin Coolidge

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

— Calvin Coolidge

Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every…

— Calvin Coolidge

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction…

— Calvin Coolidge

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

— Calvin Coolidge

I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of…

— Calvin Coolidge

Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it…

— Calvin Coolidge

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can…

— Calvin Coolidge

We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted…

— Calvin Coolidge

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a…

— Calvin Coolidge

Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.…

— Calvin Coolidge

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them…

— Calvin Coolidge

We pay too little attention to the reserve power of the people to take care of themselves. We are too solicitous for…

— Calvin Coolidge

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out…

— Calvin Coolidge

Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge…

— Calvin Coolidge

I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless…

— Calvin Coolidge

No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect…

— Calvin Coolidge

Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The…

— Calvin Coolidge

One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate…

— Calvin Coolidge

There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I…

— Calvin Coolidge

We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation,…

— Calvin Coolidge

If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office.…

— Calvin Coolidge

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help…

— Calvin Coolidge

While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be…

— Calvin Coolidge

I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established…

— Calvin Coolidge

The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored…

— Calvin Coolidge

Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and…

— Calvin Coolidge

“Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and…

— Calvin Coolidge

The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

— Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

— Calvin Coolidge

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

— Calvin Coolidge

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all…

— Calvin Coolidge

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of…

— Calvin Coolidge

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight…

— Calvin Coolidge