To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
CALVIN COOLIDGEAll growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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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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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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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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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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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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