If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
CALVIN COOLIDGEPatriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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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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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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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 want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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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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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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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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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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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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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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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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