Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWe want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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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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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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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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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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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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