Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational Life, Healing, America

• Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Powerful, Past, Government

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.343, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• There is no substitute for a militant freedom.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Revolution, Substitutes, Militant

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.159, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Independent, Rights, People

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

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