Calvin Coolidge
The business of the country is business.Collection: Country
Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?Collection: Leadership
A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.Collection: Government
A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.Collection: Party
Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.Collection: Work
Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.Collection: Frugality
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.Collection: Perseverance
At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.Collection: Government
The chief business of America is business.Collection: America
Inflation is repudiation.Collection: Economy
Business will be either better or worse.Collection: Business
Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.Collection: Country
The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.Collection: Morning
A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.Collection: Lost
Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.Collection: Lying
Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!Collection: Friendship
[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.Collection: Chinese
I do not choose to run for President in 1928.Collection: Running
I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.Collection: Taken
America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.Collection: America
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.Collection: Changed
Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the right of the individual to liberty and equality is admitted, there is no escape from the conclusion that he alone is entitled to the rewards of his own industry. Any other conclusion would necessarily imply either privilege or servitude.Collection: Government
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.Collection: Teaching
I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.Collection: Golf
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.Collection: Doubt
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This is not local self-government. It is not American. It is not the method which has made this country what it is. We can not maintain the western standard of civilization on that theory. If it is supported at all, it will have to be supported on the principle of individual responsibility.Collection: Country
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.Collection: Government
Anytime you don't want anything you get it.Collection: Want
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors.Collection: Equality
If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control. While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice it will be very largely serving private interests. It comes to be regarded as a species of government favor and those who are the most adroit get the larger part of it.Collection: Government
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.Collection: Law
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.Collection: Inspirational
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil. It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the Government, every time an appropriation bill is passed. The people pay the expense of government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living. I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.Collection: Cost Of Living
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.Collection: Practice
It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.Collection: Lying
Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.Collection: Government
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source by their very nature is in the people. The people have to bear their own responsibilities. There is no method by which that burden can be shifted to the government. It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.Collection: Character
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.Collection: Country
Character is the only secure foundation of the state.Collection: Character
Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.Collection: Wisdom
War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.Collection: War
Civilisation and profits go hand in hand.Collection: Hands
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.Collection: Destiny
We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.Collection: Rights
America has many glories. The last one that she would wish to surrender is the glory of the men who have served her in war. While such devotion lives, the nation is secure. Whatever dangers may threaten from within or without, she can view them calmly. Turning to her veterans, she can say: 'These are our defenders. They are invincible. In them is our safety.'Collection: War
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press.Collection: Accomplishment
Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.Collection: People
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.Collection: Law
As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.Collection: Father