The quotations of

Calvin Coolidge

President of the United States from 1923 to 1929

1872–1933

39 quotes, most often on America, Government and Talking. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
Telegram to AFL president Samuel Gompers (14 September 1919); concerning the 1919 Boston Police strike.
- Government
- Work
There is no substitute for a militant freedom. The only alternative is submission and slavery.
The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses, Coolidge, The Minerva Group (2001), p. 159
- Freedom
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
The Press Under a Free Government (1925)
- America
- Business
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.
Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (1926)
- America
- Government
The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists. That is the only motive to which they ever give any strong and lasting reaction.
The Press Under a Free Government (1925)
- America
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
Authority and Religious Liberty (1924)
- Liberty
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do on its enforcement.
Address before the Women’s National Committee for Law Enforcement; as quoted in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 87 (1933)
- Laws
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.
From ‘Address at Holy Cross’ (25 June 1919), published in Have Faith In Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2nd Ed.), Coolidge, Houghton Mifflin, p. 231.
- Ideas
- Knowledge
A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.
Letter to Charles F. Gardner (1924)
- Politics
- Race

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