Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
CALVIN COOLIDGEAfter order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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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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We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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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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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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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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