Calvin Coolidge
Baseball is our national game.Collection: Baseball
I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.Collection: Bible
It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address.Collection: Country
Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.Collection: Christmas
We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.Collection: Father
These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.Collection: Luck
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.Collection: Government
We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.Collection: Giving Up
No one ever lost his job by listening too much.Collection: Jobs
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.Collection: People
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.Collection: Reason
The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.Collection: Inspirational
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.Collection: Character
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.Collection: Honor
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been dedicated by long practice to that wise and beneficent policy. It is the foundation principle of our system of liberty. It makes the largest promise to the freedom and development of the individual. Its preservation is worth all the effort and all the sacrifice that it may cost.Collection: Wise
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.Collection: Government
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.Collection: Inspirational Life
One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.Collection: Peace
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.Collection: Men
I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman preeminent in the history of our nation who did not reach their place through toil. I cannot think of anything that represents the American people as a whole so adequately as honest work.Collection: Men
America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.Collection: Character
If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.Collection: Loyalty
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Religious
There is no substitute for a militant freedom.Collection: Revolution
The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to believe in them. I have had a small one to run my own home; and besides that, I am the head of the organization that makes the greatest of all budgets, that of the United States Government. Do you wonder, then, that at times I dream of balance sheets and sinking funds?Collection: Running
What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!Collection: War
[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered to civilization by men and women of the Jewish faith. May [visitors] recall the long array of those who have been eminent in statecraft, in science, in literature, in art, in the professions, in business, in finance, in philanthropy and in the spiritual life of the world.Collection: Spiritual
It is equally clear that a government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. The fundamental question was then, is now, and always will be through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied.Collection: Independent
If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.Collection: Majority
There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I think, that when they are in real trouble and real difficulty over there, they turn to us as a nation that will be fair with them--one in whose judgment and in whose character they can rely; and that not withstanding differences that have seemed to exist, they are willing to abide by the faith that they have in us, and I think that is a very substantial accomplishment.Collection: Real
It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress.Collection: People
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.Collection: Motivational Bodybuilding
It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.Collection: Patience
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.Collection: Peace
The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.Collection: Determination