When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
CALVIN COOLIDGEYou 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.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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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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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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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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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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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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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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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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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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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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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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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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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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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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