They have not empowered their Government to take a dollar of it except for a necessary public purpose.
Calvin Coolidge: “They have not empowered their Government to take a dollar of it except for a necessary public purpose.”
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Coolidge asserts that the government should only use public funds for essential purposes, emphasizing the limits of governmental power.
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