Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed. Calvin Coolidge More Quotes by Calvin Coolidge More Quotes From Calvin Coolidge Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law? Calvin Coolidge example leadership law There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. Calvin Coolidge strikes safety time If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it. Calvin Coolidge majority vote politics While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage. Calvin Coolidge hard-work office thinking I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen. Calvin Coolidge kings bible book No enterprise can exist for itself alone. Calvin Coolidge profitable-business enterprise business We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons. Calvin Coolidge concern rights needs Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity. Calvin Coolidge divorced prosperity humanity I guess I am not naturally energetic. I like to sit around and talk. Calvin Coolidge energetic energy The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc... the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go. Calvin Coolidge navy love people 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. Calvin Coolidge taken people ideas Public debt [is] a burden on all the people. Calvin Coolidge debt presidential people Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine." Calvin Coolidge presidential israel expression 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. Calvin Coolidge entertainment president country The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty. Calvin Coolidge israel teaching numbers 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. Calvin Coolidge independent government law It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace, that we ratified a treaty for the limitation of naval armaments made in 1921, earnestly sought for a further extension of this principle in 1927, and have secured the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it is an instrument of national policy, and pledging each other to seek no solution of their disagreements except by pacific means. Calvin Coolidge determination war peace 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. Calvin Coolidge pride real character The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored people is one which, however it might be received in some other quarters, could not possibly be permitted by one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution. Calvin Coolidge party taken responsibility Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy. Calvin Coolidge party government past
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