One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
CALVIN COOLIDGEMoney will not purchase character or good government.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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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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Life is one darn thing after another.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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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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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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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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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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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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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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