Rights Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

— Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

— Calvin Coolidge

We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.

— Calvin Coolidge

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until…

— 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

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

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive…

— Calvin Coolidge

Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and…

— Calvin Coolidge

When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases…

— Calvin Coolidge

July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker…

— Calvin Coolidge

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. .…

— 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

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry…

— Calvin Coolidge

No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only…

— Calvin Coolidge

The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights…

— Calvin Coolidge

The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored…

— Calvin Coolidge

Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to…

— Calvin Coolidge

In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of…

— Calvin Coolidge

Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution…

— Calvin Coolidge