Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
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.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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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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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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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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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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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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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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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 taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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