If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe 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.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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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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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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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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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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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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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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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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