Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWhat men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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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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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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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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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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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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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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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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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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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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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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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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