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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWe 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.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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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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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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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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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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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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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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