Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
CALVIN COOLIDGEA display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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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 attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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