Quote by Calvin Coolidge
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where

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

Other quotes by Calvin Coolidge

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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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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Nature never breaks her own laws. – Leonardo da Vinci

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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. – Blaise Pascal

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Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods! – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. – W. Somerset Maugham

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The naive follow their hearts. The wise lead with their hearts. – Author Unknown

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Arkansas is a state where politics is retail. – Mike Huckabee

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Leaf blowers are excruciatingly lazy loud invasive rudeness, the hot air din of disrespect. – Terri Guillemets #hsp

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