Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge More Quotes by Calvin Coolidge More Quotes From Calvin Coolidge If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice. Calvin Coolidge fairness shows justice Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality. Their works survive. Calvin Coolidge pride humble hands It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man. Calvin Coolidge safety men country A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government. Calvin Coolidge government substance people When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By recognizing that he is a part of a larger body which is banded together for a common purpose, he becomes more than an individual, he rises to a new dignity of citizenship. Instead of finding himself restricted and confined by rendering obedience to public law, he finds himself protected and defended and in the exercise of increased and increasing rights. Calvin Coolidge rights law exercise 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 proposal bills important No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time. In the domestic field there is tranquillity and contentment, harmonious relations between management and wage earner, freedom from industrial strife, and the highest record of years of prosperity. Calvin Coolidge political depression years The country is not in good condition. Calvin Coolidge great-depression conditions country It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have been able in that way to judge the tree by its fruit. I know of your high ideals. I have seen that you hold your meetings in the presence of the open Bible, and I know that men who observe that formality have high sentiments of citizenship, of worth, and character. That is the strength of our Commonwealth and nation. Calvin Coolidge judging character men Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. Calvin Coolidge xmas christmas mind There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men! Calvin Coolidge cheer kindness sweet Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared. Calvin Coolidge government justice country Industry cannot flourish if labor languish. Calvin Coolidge languish labor work It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Calvin Coolidge atheist love men American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied. Calvin Coolidge ideals understood changed Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business. Calvin Coolidge party government believe Eat it up, make it do, wear it out. Calvin Coolidge frugality The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view. Calvin Coolidge party views two These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose. Calvin Coolidge politics chance luck That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad. Calvin Coolidge advice men years
