Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure.

Calvin Coolidge's Popular Quotes

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

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

- Calvin Coolidge

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

- Calvin Coolidge

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

- 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. …

- 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…

- Calvin Coolidge

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

- Calvin Coolidge

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

- Calvin Coolidge