Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
CALVIN COOLIDGEFour-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
CALVIN COOLIDGEDoubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThere is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
CALVIN COOLIDGEEducation should be the handmaid of citizenship.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe final solution for unemployment is work.
CALVIN COOLIDGENever go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
CALVIN COOLIDGEYou can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe 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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThere 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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThere 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 COOLIDGEAfter order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
CALVIN COOLIDGEYour ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
CALVIN COOLIDGEIn a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEI 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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