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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No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war. – Calvin Coolidge

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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct. – Calvin Coolidge

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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind. – Calvin Coolidge

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If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country. – James Buchanan to Abraham Lincoln, 1861

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One of the greatest captains of the age. – Benjamin Franklin

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Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. – John F. Kennedy

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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. – Thomas Jefferson

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