Quote by Calvin Coolidge
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized ro

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. – Calvin Coolidge

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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. – Calvin Coolidge

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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. – Calvin Coolidge

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Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. – John F. Kennedy

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. – James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788

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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. – William Godwin

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I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon ones self to destiny. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. – Bertrand Russell

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