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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Calvin Coolidge
Freedom, Democracy, Constitution
"Address of Acceptance". Address accepting nomination as Republican candidate for president, Washington, D.C., on August 04, 1924, p. 15,

The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.

Calvin Coolidge
Country, Religious, Religion

Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.

Calvin Coolidge
Government, Progress, Taxation
Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Message of the President of the United States to the Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Sixty-eighth Congress, December 3 1924”

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

Calvin Coolidge
Country, Men, Law
"Address at the Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue of Bishop Francis Asbury, Washington, DC". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 15, 1924.

Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims.

Calvin Coolidge
Mean, Exercise, Rights
"First State of the Union Address" by Calvin Coolidge, 1923.

The 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 Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.

Calvin Coolidge
Doubt, Republic, Rewards

Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.

Calvin Coolidge
Ignorance, Rights, Law
Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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
Exercise, Rights, Law
"Freedom and its Obligations". Speech at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, May 30, 1924.

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Calvin Coolidge
Men, Years, Advice

Life is one darn thing after another.

Calvin Coolidge
Life Is

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

Calvin Coolidge
Life, Play, Advertising

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

Calvin Coolidge
Business, Today, Tomorrow

Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.

Calvin Coolidge
Art, Mean, Government
Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

Calvin Coolidge
Men, Important, Attention

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge
Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination
Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

Calvin Coolidge
Freedom, Independent, Destiny

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.

Calvin Coolidge
Men, Hands, Presidential
Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge
Work, Mean, Effort
Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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.

Calvin Coolidge
People, Giving, Effort

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Calvin Coolidge
Simple, United States, Care
Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

Calvin Coolidge
Changed, Understood, Ideals
Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”

Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the right of the individual to liberty and equality is admitted, there is no escape from the conclusion that he alone is entitled to the rewards of his own industry. Any other conclusion would necessarily imply either privilege or servitude.

Calvin Coolidge
Government, Liberty, Rewards

A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great.

Calvin Coolidge
Memories, Greatness, Men
Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.171, The Minerva Group, Inc.

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Calvin Coolidge
Nature, Healing, Tired

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
Powerful, Past, Government
Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.343, The Minerva Group, Inc.