This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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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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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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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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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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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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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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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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