Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
CALVIN COOLIDGEAmerican ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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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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Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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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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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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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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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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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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