Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Presidential
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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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.
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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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To 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. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world." ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).
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Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.
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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.
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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.
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Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine."
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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