While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government. They were an inspired… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have… — 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 reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't… — 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
We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal… — 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
[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know… — 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
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