If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe final solution for unemployment is work.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
-
-
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Silence can never be misquoted.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Money will not purchase character or good government.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
CALVIN COOLIDGE