"The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes."
― Calvin Coolidge
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Government
― Calvin Coolidge
More From Calvin Coolidge
- "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."
- "When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."
- "All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."
More In Government
- "Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."― Thomas Jefferson
- "One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries."― Hillary Clinton
- "Every dollar I can’t commit to my company that’s paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don’t want done."― Curt Schilling