Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThis country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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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.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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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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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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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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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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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.
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There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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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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