Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
CALVIN COOLIDGEIt is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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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.
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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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