Money will not purchase character or good government.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWe 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.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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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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We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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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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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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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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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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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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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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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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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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