There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. - Calvin Coolidge
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
- Calvin Coolidge
Silence can never be misquoted. - Calvin Coolidge
Silence can never be misquoted.
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. - Calvin Coolidge
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
You can't know too much, but you can say too much. - Calvin Coolidge
You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Calvin Coolidge
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. … - Calvin Coolidge
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. …
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its i… - Calvin Coolidge
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its i…
You can't increase prosperity by taxing success. - Calvin Coolidge
You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.
Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it. - Calvin Coolidge
Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.
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