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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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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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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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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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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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