Logo
Quote by Calvin Coolidge
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. – Calvin Coolidge

Other quotes by Calvin Coolidge

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

Category:
great
Author
Calvin Coolidge
Read Quote

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. – Calvin Coolidge

Category:
Men
Author
Calvin Coolidge
Read Quote

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. – Calvin Coolidge

Category:
power
Author
Calvin Coolidge
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Nature
category

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. – Hubert H. Humphrey

Category:
Nature

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Nature

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. – Annie Leibovitz

Category:
Nature

The moon quotes the sun, the rivers quote the trees, and trees quote the breeze. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

Category:
Money

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. – Joe Biden

Category:
alone

Music inflames temperament. – Jim Morrison

Category:
Music

Id have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. – Paulo Coelho

Category:
Money