black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Change Ideal Understand
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
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Forever Freedom Law Religious
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Government Ideal
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Control People Wild
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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Collective Duty Personal
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Cold Employment
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Charity Honor Ideal Peace
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
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Act Powerful Togetherness
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
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
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Government People Rule
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Giving Help Himself

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Calvin Coolidge Quotes