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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThey criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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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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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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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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Life is one darn thing after another.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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