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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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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Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. – Calvin Coolidge

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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Oh, wise physician of a wasted land! – Hermann Hagedorn

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

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. – Thomas Jefferson

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A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. – Eric Hoffer

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Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses. – Thomas Frank

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Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. – George Gurdjieff

Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her laptop in Texas can see photos and cell phone video in real time that a young college student has posted of a rally hes at in Iran. – Rosalind Wiseman

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