It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
CALVIN COOLIDGELiberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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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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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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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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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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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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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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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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