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 COOLIDGEThe Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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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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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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We 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.
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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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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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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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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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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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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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