Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
CALVIN COOLIDGELiberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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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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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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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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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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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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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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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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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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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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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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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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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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