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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEMoney will not purchase character or good government.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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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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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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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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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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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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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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