We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
CALVIN COOLIDGEYou can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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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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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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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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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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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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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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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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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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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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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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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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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.
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