Character Quote by Calvin Coolidge

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

— Ayn Rand

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

— Anonymous

Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured…

— Calvin Coolidge

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose…

— Stephen Breyer

“What did “good government” really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There’s no evidence that Langlie ever even took…

— Jeff Sharlet

One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and…

— John Hickenlooper

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good,…

— James Bovard

A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our…

— Warren Mundine

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective,…

— Tony Campolo

There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.

— Confucius

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has…

— Abraham Lincoln

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently…

— Henry Louis Mencken