Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
CALVIN COOLIDGEIf all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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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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There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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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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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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