Tag: Calvin Coolidge
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Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
Calvin Coolidge
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If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it.
Calvin Coolidge
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
Calvin Coolidge
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Calvin Coolidge
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge
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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 to be one of them again.
Calvin Coolidge
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Calvin Coolidge
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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Calvin Coolidge
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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
Calvin Coolidge