After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWorkmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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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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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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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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The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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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 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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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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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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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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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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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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