After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
CALVIN COOLIDGEUltimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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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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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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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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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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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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