Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
CALVIN COOLIDGEUltimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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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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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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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 Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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