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Very Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have…
- Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed…
- It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral…
- The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.
- I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably…
- If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
- 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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