Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge Jr.was the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action. Soon after, he was elected as the 29th vice president in 1920 and succeeded to the presidency upon the sudden death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth4 July 1872
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.
I suppose I am the most powerful man in the world, but great power doesn't mean much except great limitations
Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control. While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice it will be very largely serving private interests. It comes to be regarded as a species of government favor and those who are the most adroit get the larger part of it.
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.