Calvin Coolidge

Inflation is repudiation.

— Calvin Coolidge

Advertising is the life of trade.

— Calvin Coolidge

Baseball is our national game.

— Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.

— Calvin Coolidge

The things I never say never get me into trouble.

— Calvin Coolidge

There is no substitute for a militant freedom.

— Calvin Coolidge

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

— Calvin Coolidge

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

— Calvin Coolidge

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

— Calvin Coolidge

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

— Calvin Coolidge

America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.

— Calvin Coolidge

You don't have to explain something you never said.

— Calvin Coolidge

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

— Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

— Calvin Coolidge

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

— Calvin Coolidge

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

— Calvin Coolidge

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

— Calvin Coolidge

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by…

— Calvin Coolidge

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can…

— Calvin Coolidge

We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted…

— Calvin Coolidge

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due,…

— Calvin Coolidge

The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited… There is no rightto…

— Calvin Coolidge

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

— Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

— Calvin Coolidge

[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of…

— 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

It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be…

— Calvin Coolidge

The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no…

— Calvin Coolidge

If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government…

— Calvin Coolidge

“The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately. It would be exceedingly easy to…

— 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

The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose…

— Calvin Coolidge

“Ever since I was in Amherst College I have remembered how Garman told his class in philosophy that if they would go…

— 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

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

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

— Calvin Coolidge

This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays…

— Calvin Coolidge

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help…

— Calvin Coolidge

While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be…

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge