Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• 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”

• The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Evil, Way

• It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Lying, Responsibility, People

• It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress.

  Calvin Coolidge

  People, Evil, Progress

• Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Evil, Principles, World

• Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Lying, Long Ago, Civilization

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