Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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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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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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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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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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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.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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