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
Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations. — 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
One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate… — 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
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. — 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
These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose. — 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
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight… — 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
