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
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations. — 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
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 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
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
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . .… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
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
Not all those who are attempting to conduct successful businesses are profiteers — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share
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
“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
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
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
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share
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
“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
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
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share
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