Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established… — 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
It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to… — 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
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something… — 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
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
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
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
The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to… — 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
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
Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves — 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
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. — 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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