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.
CALVIN COOLIDGENothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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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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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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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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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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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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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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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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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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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 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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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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