Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
CALVIN COOLIDGEOne of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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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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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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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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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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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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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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