Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Tyranny

Quotes about: Tyranny

• Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Information, Firsts, Source

  "The Press Under a Free Government". Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, January 17, 1925.

• No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Self, Liberty

• A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, People, Presidential

• The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Doubt, Republic, Rewards

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