Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWe demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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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 can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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