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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWorkmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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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 final solution for unemployment is work.
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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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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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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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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