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

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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

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

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

- 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

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

- Calvin Coolidge