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.
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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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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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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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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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 right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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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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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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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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Money will not purchase character or good 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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We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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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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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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No 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.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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