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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEI sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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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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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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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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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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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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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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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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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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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 Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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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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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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