In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
CALVIN COOLIDGENo 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.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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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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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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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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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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