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.
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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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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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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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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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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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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We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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