We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and … - Calvin Coolidge

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

It's difficult enough for a young person to put his soul on the line in front of a lot of drunken people without having that hanging over his head, too.

Calvin Coolidge

We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.

Capacity, Firsts, Government, People, Wrong

Same Author Quotes

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source by their very nature is in the people. The people have to bear their own responsibilities. There is no method by which that burden can be shifted to the government. It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

Character, Create, Government, Nation, Responsibility

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Bewildered, Credulous, Gullibility, People, Tend

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Democratic, Force, Ideal, Idealism, Patriotic

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.

Characteristically, Men, People, Place, Represents, Thinking

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Force, Intercourse, Nations, Reason, Should