Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. It is on that side of life that it is desirable to put the emphasis at the present time. If that side be strengthened, the other side will take care of itself.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Character, Government

  Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”

• Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Self, Wealth

• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Hope, Lying, Character

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

• Character is the only secure foundation of the state.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Foundation, States

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

• Money will not purchase character or good government.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Government

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

• It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have been able in that way to judge the tree by its fruit. I know of your high ideals. I have seen that you hold your meetings in the presence of the open Bible, and I know that men who observe that formality have high sentiments of citizenship, of worth, and character. That is the strength of our Commonwealth and nation.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Men, Judging

• What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Men, Temptation

• 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.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Responsibility, Government

  "Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence". en.wikisource.org. July 05, 1926.

• The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self-government means self-support.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Mean, Government

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

• America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Men, America

• There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Prosperity, Destruction

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.64, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Kings, Character, Views

• It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Law, Nations

  Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926.

• There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I think, that when they are in real trouble and real difficulty over there, they turn to us as a nation that will be fair with them--one in whose judgment and in whose character they can rely; and that not withstanding differences that have seemed to exist, they are willing to abide by the faith that they have in us, and I think that is a very substantial accomplishment.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Real, Character, Pride

• We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Needs, More Knowledge

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.390, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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