Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
CALVIN COOLIDGECollecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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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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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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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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The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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