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
While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them. — 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
The president stands between the twin mirrors of the past and future, causing his being to become reflected an infinite amount of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is… — 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
The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he… — 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
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