I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
CALVIN COOLIDGEYou don’t have to explain something you never said.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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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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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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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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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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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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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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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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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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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 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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Silence can never be misquoted.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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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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No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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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.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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