The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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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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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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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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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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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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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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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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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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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 best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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