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 COOLIDGENever go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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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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If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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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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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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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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