Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
CALVIN COOLIDGEYou can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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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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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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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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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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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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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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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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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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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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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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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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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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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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