Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 579 President quotesPresident QuotesPresident Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.~ Calvin Coolidge No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.~ Calvin Coolidge As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.~ Calvin Coolidge I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.~ Calvin Coolidge When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.~ Calvin Coolidge After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.~ Calvin Coolidge Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.~ Calvin Coolidge Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.~ Calvin Coolidge Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.~ Alan Corenk [A] possible further difficulty is cited, namely, that arising from the Constitutional provision that only Congress may declare war. This argument is countered with the contention that a treaty will override this barrier, let alone the fact that our participation in such police action as might be recommended by the international security organization need not necessarily be construed as war.~ Council on Foreign Relations As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not being hereditary, their collective knowledge, wisdom, and virtue are not precarious. For by these qualities alone are they to obtain their offices, and they will have none of the peculiar qualities and vices of those men who possess power merely because their father held it before them.~ Tench Coxe A greater principle is at stake than the fate of any particular president~ Benjamin Curtis When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.~ Clarence S. Darrow The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it, which are necessary to preserve its existence; as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw off its just authority.~ Justice David Davis I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.~ Frederick Douglass War is the trade of Kings.~ John Dryden A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower All of us have heard this term "preventive war" since the earliest days of Hitler. ... A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war. ... I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print