“It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.” — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We pay too little attention to the reserve power of the people to take care of themselves. We are too solicitous for… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people… Those who… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Not all those who are attempting to conduct successful businesses are profiteers — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.” — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.” — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.” — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“While we should not refuse to spend and be spent in the service of our country, it is hazardous to attempt what we feel… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
