If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWe 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.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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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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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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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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The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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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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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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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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