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
There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange… — 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
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 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
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
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic… — 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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part… — 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
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
The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to… — 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
“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
A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them… — 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
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office.… — 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 the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction… — 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
