Calvin CoolidgeWhy don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.371Death
Calvin CoolidgeIndustry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.371Thought
Calvin CoolidgeThe business of the country is business.361Reflection
Calvin CoolidgeBecause of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity. ✨ Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 Marc… ▶373HopeHumanityLove
Calvin CoolidgeFaith 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 par… ▶373HopeLifePolitics
Calvin CoolidgeWhile legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more tolerable and life mor… ▶352HumanityLifePolitics
Calvin CoolidgePerhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. ✨ 1929 Press conference, Mar.363Thought
Calvin CoolidgeWe 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… ▶331Thought
Calvin CoolidgeTo the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.… ▶342HopeHumanityPolitics
Calvin CoolidgeIt 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...e… ▶331Humanity
Calvin CoolidgeWe do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. ✨ Calvin C… ▶331Politics
Calvin CoolidgeIt 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 behi… ▶332HopeLifeLove
Calvin CoolidgeI did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.321Truth
Calvin CoolidgePatriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ✨ Calvin Coolidge (1924). Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citi… ▶354Thought
Calvin CoolidgeWe 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. ✨ President… ▶333PoliticsThought
Calvin CoolidgeNothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.377Humor
Calvin CoolidgeIf 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 perfor… ▶377HumanityPolitics
Calvin CoolidgeAdvertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade.366Humor
Calvin CoolidgeI want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves ✨ Speech on Taxes, Liberty, and the Philosophy of Government, delivered 11 A… ▶356HumanityPhilosophyPolitics
Calvin CoolidgeChristmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. ✨ Bill O'Reilly: The War on Christmas: The big picture by Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 29, 201… ▶367PoliticsThoughtTime
Calvin CoolidgeWe 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 d… ▶345Humanity
Calvin CoolidgeThe 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 Re… ▶323Time
Calvin CoolidgeWe 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.… ▶334HumanityPoliticsTime
Calvin CoolidgeOne day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens… ▶367PoliticsTime
Calvin CoolidgeWe do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the Ame… ▶302PoliticsThought
Calvin CoolidgeLiberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. ✨ Authority and Religious Liberty. Address before the Holy Name Society, Washington, D.C., arch… ▶324Humanity
Calvin CoolidgeThe benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all. ✨ Calvin Coolidge (1924). Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Thro… ▶335Thought
Calvin CoolidgeYou can't know too much, but you can say too much.379Life
Calvin CoolidgeI favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of th… ▶302HumanityLifePolitics
Calvin CoolidgeNo man ever listened himself out of a job.357Life
