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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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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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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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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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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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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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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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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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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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