It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law? — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if… — 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 cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is equally clear that a government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be… — 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
When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation fails, those who look upon it as… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is… — 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
“The Business of Our Firm is Business" -Donald W. Hudspeth from: "The Business of America is Business" -Calvin Coolidge” — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution… — 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
