It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
CALVIN COOLIDGEI sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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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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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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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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The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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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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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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