Silence can never be misquoted.
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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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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 dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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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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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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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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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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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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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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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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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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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 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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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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