The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
CALVIN COOLIDGEUnless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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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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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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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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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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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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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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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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We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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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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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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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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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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