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— Calvin Coolidge

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

— Calvin Coolidge

I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of…

— Calvin Coolidge

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.

— Calvin Coolidge

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

— Calvin Coolidge

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

— Calvin Coolidge

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

— Calvin Coolidge

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all…

— Calvin Coolidge

I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out…

— Calvin Coolidge

You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have.…

— Calvin Coolidge

I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person…

— Calvin Coolidge

The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to…

— Calvin Coolidge

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out…

— Calvin Coolidge

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them…

— Calvin Coolidge

This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays…

— Calvin Coolidge

Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution…

— Calvin Coolidge

I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established…

— Calvin Coolidge