Calvin Coolidge Quotes

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• Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his…
• I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.
• Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
• You don't have to explain something you never said.
• You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
• The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
• A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great…
• Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
• Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a…
• We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If…
• It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than…
• We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America…
• America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not…
• There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there…
• No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who…
• What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been…
• Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This…
• We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity…
• One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .

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