Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThere is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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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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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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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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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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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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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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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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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 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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We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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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.
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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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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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