I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe final solution for unemployment is work.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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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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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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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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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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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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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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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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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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The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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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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Money will not purchase character or good 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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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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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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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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