Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
CALVIN COOLIDGEIf American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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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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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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We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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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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Life is one darn thing after another.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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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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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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