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We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

Calvin Coolidge
Honor, Charity, Want

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Calvin Coolidge
Silence, Presidential, Political
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

Calvin Coolidge
Character, Men, Temptation

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Calvin Coolidge
Science, Supposing That, Forever
Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

No one ever lost his job by listening too much.

Calvin Coolidge
Jobs, Listening, Too Much

What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been dedicated by long practice to that wise and beneficent policy. It is the foundation principle of our system of liberty. It makes the largest promise to the freedom and development of the individual. Its preservation is worth all the effort and all the sacrifice that it may cost.

Calvin Coolidge
Wise, Country, Sacrifice

I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman preeminent in the history of our nation who did not reach their place through toil. I cannot think of anything that represents the American people as a whole so adequately as honest work.

Calvin Coolidge
Men, Thinking, People
"Time for Trump, Congress to deliver on economic growth". newsok.com. September 4, 2017.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge
Jobs, Men, Listening

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

Calvin Coolidge
Government, People, Favors
Speech on Taxes, Liberty, and the Philosophy of Government, delivered 11 August 1924, The White House Grounds, Washington, D.C.

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.

Calvin Coolidge
Inspirational Life, Healing, America

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

Calvin Coolidge
Men, Law, Nullification
Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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
Teaching, Numbers, Israel

One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.

Calvin Coolidge
Peace, Lying, Opportunity
Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

Calvin Coolidge
Loyalty, Party, Responsibility
Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.

Calvin Coolidge
Character, Men, America

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Calvin Coolidge
Work, People, Unemployment
Attributed in StanleyWalker, City Editor (1934)

Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.

Calvin Coolidge
Thanksgiving, Christian, Strong
Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.13, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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
Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

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

Character is the only secure foundation of the state.

Calvin Coolidge
Character, Foundation, States
Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge
Inspirational, Motivational, Success
Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

There is no substitute for a militant freedom.

Calvin Coolidge
Revolution, Substitutes, Militant
Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.159, The Minerva Group, Inc.

The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.

Calvin Coolidge
Men, Temples, He Man

The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to believe in them. I have had a small one to run my own home; and besides that, I am the head of the organization that makes the greatest of all budgets, that of the United States Government. Do you wonder, then, that at times I dream of balance sheets and sinking funds?

Calvin Coolidge
Running, Dream, Believe
Source: www.mikechurch.com

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

Calvin Coolidge
Destiny, Men, Desire
Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926.