Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
CALVIN COOLIDGEFreedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
CALVIN COOLIDGEYou can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
CALVIN COOLIDGEI have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe 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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe 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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEMan everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWe cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
CALVIN COOLIDGENo 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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
CALVIN COOLIDGEIt is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThis country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
CALVIN COOLIDGEEconomy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
CALVIN COOLIDGEYou don’t have to explain something you never said.
CALVIN COOLIDGEIt is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
CALVIN COOLIDGELife is one darn thing after another.
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