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.
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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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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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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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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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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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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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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Life is one darn thing after another.
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