We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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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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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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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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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The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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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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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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