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.
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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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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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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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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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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If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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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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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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