You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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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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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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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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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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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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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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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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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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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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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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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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