Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWorkmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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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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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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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 Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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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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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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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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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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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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