Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe final solution for unemployment is work.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
-
-
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
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.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
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.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
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.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
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 -
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 -
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
CALVIN COOLIDGE