I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWhen people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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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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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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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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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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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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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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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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