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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEIn life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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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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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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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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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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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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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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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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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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