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Quote by Calvin Coolidge
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in

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

Other quotes by Calvin Coolidge

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. – Calvin Coolidge

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Men
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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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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. – Abraham Lincoln

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We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent. – Marco Rubio

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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed. – Benjamin Franklin

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I think the countrys getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. – George McGovern

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There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. – Timothy Geithner

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