Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
CALVIN COOLIDGEA display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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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 toil.
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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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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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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.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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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.
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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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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.
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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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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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