Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
CALVIN COOLIDGEAmerican ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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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 difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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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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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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