Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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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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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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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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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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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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