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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEAfter order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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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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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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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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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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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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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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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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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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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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