black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Character Destruction Prosperity
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Job People Work
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Government Justification
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Beginning Education Learning
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Ambition Effort Time
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Business Improvement Present
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Country Potential Vision
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Character Creation Self Wealth
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.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Good Woman Help Men
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Calvin Coolidge Quotes