Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. — 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 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
Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God. — 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
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. .… — 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… — 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
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
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
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker… — 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
I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . .… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of… — 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
