Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWe cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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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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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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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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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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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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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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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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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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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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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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