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 COOLIDGEWorkmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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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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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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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 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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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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