Needs Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

14 Needs quotes by Calvin Coolidge

Coolidge’s 14 brief remarks on Needs reflect his terse, no‑nonsense style, delivering a clear, almost stoic view of what he considered vital for a functioning society.

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We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

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We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.

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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

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Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

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It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind…

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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

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What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government.…

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America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery,…

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Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin…

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We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand…

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We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more…

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It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine…

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There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange…

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While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be…

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The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity.…

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“The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.”

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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

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Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do.…

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The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

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“While we should not refuse to spend and be spent in the service of our country, it is hazardous to attempt what we feel…

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One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things…

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War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.

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We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of…

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