We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
CALVIN COOLIDGEYou don’t have to explain something you never said.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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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 undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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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 must be forever free.
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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 for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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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.
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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.
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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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