"I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves"

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Source : Speech on Taxes, Liberty, and the Philosophy of Government, delivered 11 August 1924, The White House Grounds, Washington, D.C.

Calvin Coolidge

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“I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.”
“My friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior.”
“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.”
“The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.”
“A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.”
“Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.”
“My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.”
“Seek to have your life in God, not in things, not in people, not in places, not in circumstances, not in arguments, not in human intelligence, but in God.”

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