Calvin Coolidge
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.Collection: Country
One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.Collection: Rights
There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.Collection: Freedom
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Leadership
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselvesCollection: Government
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan.Collection: Atheist
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.Collection: Government
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.Collection: President
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.Collection: Government
Money will not purchase character or good government.Collection: Character
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause.Collection: Spiritual
If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.Collection: Government
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.Collection: Bible
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.Collection: Giving
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Powerful
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.Collection: Thinking
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.Collection: Motivational
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.Collection: Perseverance
The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.Collection: Support
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.Collection: Government
Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.Collection: Equality
Self-government means self support.Collection: Mean
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.Collection: Justification
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.Collection: Real
Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the mind and soul of the individual. I know of no way that this can be done save through the influence of religion and education. By religion I do not mean fanaticism or bigotry; by education I do not mean the cant of the schools, but a broad and tolerant faith, loving thy neighbor as thyself, and a training and experience that enables the human mind to see into the heart of things.Collection: Heart
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.Collection: Civilization
The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights of citizens ought to be protected with every power and resource of the state, and a government that does any less is false to the teachings of that great document - false to the name American.Collection: Teaching
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.Collection: America
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.Collection: Government
I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.Collection: Government
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.Collection: People
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.Collection: Science
Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.Collection: 4th Of July
All growth depends upon activity.Collection: Hard Work
Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.Collection: Humanity
Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service.Collection: Country
The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored people is one which, however it might be received in some other quarters, could not possibly be permitted by one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution.Collection: Taken
I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont.Collection: Race
Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.Collection: Mean
One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .Collection: Government
I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.Collection: People
The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc... the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.Collection: Love
If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.Collection: Justice
Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.Collection: People
If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.Collection: Rights
To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.Collection: Educational
Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine."Collection: Israel