The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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