When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
CALVIN COOLIDGEDuty is not collective; it is personal.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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