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30th U S President Inspirational Quotes (168)

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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.
Calvin Coolidge
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade.
Calvin Coolidge
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Civilisation and profits go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge
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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.
Calvin Coolidge
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America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
Calvin Coolidge
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Calvin Coolidge
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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.
Calvin Coolidge
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We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
Calvin Coolidge
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The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.
Calvin Coolidge
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As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.
Calvin Coolidge
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Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
Calvin Coolidge
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We 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.
Calvin Coolidge
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Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
Calvin Coolidge
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Calvin Coolidge
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
Calvin Coolidge
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Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
Calvin Coolidge
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I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.
Calvin Coolidge
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge
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Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.
Calvin Coolidge
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Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
Calvin Coolidge
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Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.
Calvin Coolidge
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Calvin Coolidge
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These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.
Calvin Coolidge
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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
Calvin Coolidge
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