If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
CALVIN COOLIDGEDon’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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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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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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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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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Unless 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.
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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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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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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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