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Public Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
- Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
- The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized…
- A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but…
- Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
- The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion…
- We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an…
- There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
- Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.
- If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control.…
- Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence…
- There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
- 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…
- I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.
- You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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