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Them Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
- We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
- 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…
- As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn…
- Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
- 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…
- You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep…
- 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…
- I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.
- Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
- 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…
- 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…
- The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them…
- I suggested to them also the great desirability of a general knowledge on the Island of the English language. They are under an English speakinggovernment…
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