I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
CALVIN COOLIDGEPerhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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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 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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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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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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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 Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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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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Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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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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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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