Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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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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Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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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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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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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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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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Life is one darn thing after another.
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