Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, People, Citizens

• Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely for the purpose of protecting ourselves. We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Race, Government, America

• They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government. They were an inspired body of men. It has been said that God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain into the wilderness ... Who can fail to see it in the hand of Destiny? Who can doubt that it has been guided by a Divine Providence?

  Calvin Coolidge

  Christian, Father, Destiny

• No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, Educational, Needs

• Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Important, Attention

• Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Military, People

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

• Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.

  Calvin Coolidge

  People, Failing, Capacity

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