Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Economy

Quotes about: Economy

• I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

  Calvin Coolidge

  People, Wish, Favors

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

• I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Mean, Men

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

• Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Rights, Politics, Conservative

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

• After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Order, Liberty

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.350, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, Today, Tomorrow

• I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

  Calvin Coolidge

  People, Economy, Conception

• Inflation is repudiation.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Economy, Inflation

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.110, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Party, Past, Government

• One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, People, Favors

  Speech on Taxes, Liberty, and the Philosophy of Government, delivered 11 August 1924, The White House Grounds, Washington, D.C.

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