The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct. Calvin Coolidge More Quotes by Calvin Coolidge More Quotes From Calvin Coolidge 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. Calvin Coolidge republic leadership men This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there isa holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on. Calvin Coolidge holiday friday monday The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self-government means self-support. Calvin Coolidge government character mean [The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. Calvin Coolidge vanity attitude men 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. Calvin Coolidge wells would-be law 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.' Calvin Coolidge views men war 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. Calvin Coolidge religious law america Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure. Calvin Coolidge government powerful past One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights. Calvin Coolidge republic individual rights Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Calvin Coolidge multiplication revolutionary tables School is not the end but only the beginning of an education. Calvin Coolidge learning education school 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. Calvin Coolidge economic danger america 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. Calvin Coolidge hard-work president father Education should be the handmaid of citizenship. Calvin Coolidge citizenship should education 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. Calvin Coolidge government responsibility country No one ever lost his job by listening too much. Calvin Coolidge too-much listening jobs Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can't make that kind of use of the office.... I can't do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it. Calvin Coolidge office mean people In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope-nothing of man. Calvin Coolidge depression giving men When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. Calvin Coolidge president work people Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity. Calvin Coolidge toil extravagance humanity
