Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.

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.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Silence can never be misquoted.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The things I never say never get me into trouble.

Character is the only secure foundation of the state.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely for the purpose of protecting ourselves. We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.