What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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 noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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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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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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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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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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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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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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