black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Calvin Coolidge

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Attention Important Men Problem Serious
Silence can never be misquoted.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Silence Wrong
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Good Woman Help Men
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Control Firsts Information Source
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Achievement Doubt
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 COOLIDGE

Freedom Government Result Save
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Deep Liberty
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.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Character Civilization Government
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Government Justification
Life is one darn thing after another.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Life One Liner
The final solution for unemployment is work.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Government Job Solution
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Desire Destiny Men
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Important Oneself Reality
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Accomplishment Effort Generosity People

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Calvin Coolidge Quotes