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America Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
- 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…
- 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 must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an…
- Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely…
- America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.
- We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the…
- I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
- Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe…
- Realizing that we can not live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed of our resources and our counsel to the relief of the suffering and…
- Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
- The business of America is business.
- This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
- I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the…
- Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.
More America Quotes
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon