Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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 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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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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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 a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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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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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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