People Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

The chief business of the American people is business.

— Calvin Coolidge

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

— Calvin Coolidge

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

— Calvin Coolidge

Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.

— Calvin Coolidge

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

— Calvin Coolidge

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

— Calvin Coolidge

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

— Calvin Coolidge

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction…

— Calvin Coolidge

I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of…

— Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

— Calvin Coolidge

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.

— Calvin Coolidge

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of…

— Calvin Coolidge

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its…

— Calvin Coolidge

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception…

— Calvin Coolidge

While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human…

— Calvin Coolidge

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

I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person…

— Calvin Coolidge

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know…

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge…

— Calvin Coolidge

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something…

— Calvin Coolidge

We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people… Those who…

— Calvin Coolidge

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men…

— Calvin Coolidge

Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any…

— Calvin Coolidge

There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I…

— Calvin Coolidge

The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve…

— Calvin Coolidge

There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people…

— Calvin Coolidge

We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation,…

— Calvin Coolidge

I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable…

— Calvin Coolidge

The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to…

— Calvin Coolidge

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

— Calvin Coolidge

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

— Calvin Coolidge

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering…

— Calvin Coolidge

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a…

— Calvin Coolidge

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all…

— Calvin Coolidge

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from…

— Calvin Coolidge

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean…

— Calvin Coolidge

I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman…

— Calvin Coolidge

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal…

— Calvin Coolidge

Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of…

— Calvin Coolidge