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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.
Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (1926)
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.
Sid Meier's Civilization V (2010)
I feel I no longer fit in with these times.
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)
The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.
Coolidge: An American Enigma (1998)
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (1926)
I think the American people want a solemn ass as a President and I think I will go along with them.
Nothing is more dangerous to good government than great power in improper hands.
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (1929)
It was the fate of Europe to be always a battleground. Differences in race, in religion, in political genius and social ideals, seemed always ... to be invitations to contest by battle.
Looking back only a few years, we appreciate how rapid has been the progress of the colored people on this continent. Emancipation brought them the opportunity of which they have availed themselves.
The Progress of a People (1924)
I do not choose to run for President in 1928.
Yet Americans are not visionary, they are not sentimentalists. They want idealism, but they want it to be practical, they want it to produce results.
Authority and Religious Liberty (1924)
Mr. Hoover, if you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you and you have to battle with only one of them.
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)
The business of America is business.
speech to the Society of American Newspaper Editors (1925)
One with the law is a majority.
Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality. Their works survive.
America and the War (1920)
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)
But the pressure to speak is constant and intolerable. However, I resisted most of it.
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (1929)