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From Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
- 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....…
- No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which…
- 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…
- No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted…
- Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for…
- Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.
- I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are…
- If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers…
- The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless…
- Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the…
- 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…
- The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It…
- The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
- Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
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