American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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I 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.
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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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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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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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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.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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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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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 property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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