The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
CALVIN COOLIDGELiberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
-
-
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.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
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.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Life is one darn thing after another.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
CALVIN COOLIDGE