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 COOLIDGEThe final solution for unemployment is work.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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It 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.
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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 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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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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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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The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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