You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
CALVIN COOLIDGESchool is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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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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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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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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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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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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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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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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