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 COOLIDGEEducation should be the handmaid of citizenship.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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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 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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Life is one darn thing after another.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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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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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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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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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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