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Own Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
- I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters…
- It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to…
- A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and…
- Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals…
- 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....…
- It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention,…
- The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the…
- We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the…
- Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the…
- Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
- I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the…
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
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