This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates… — 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
We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand… — 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
If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part… — 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
[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human… — 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. The men… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless… — 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
No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The… — 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
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We pay too little attention to the reserve power of the people to take care of themselves. We are too solicitous for… — 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
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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