After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
CALVIN COOLIDGECollecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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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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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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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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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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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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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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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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Life is one darn thing after another.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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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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