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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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. – 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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. – Thomas Jefferson

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. – Thomas Jefferson

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