Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThey 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.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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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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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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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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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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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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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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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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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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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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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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