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Principles Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
- What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been…
- Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This…
- 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…
- 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…
- In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality,…
- Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac
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- Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. — John Quincy Adams
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