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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe 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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe final solution for unemployment is work.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
CALVIN COOLIDGEYou can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
CALVIN COOLIDGEIf all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
CALVIN COOLIDGETeaching 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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEKnowledge 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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEAnytime you don’t want anything you get it.
CALVIN COOLIDGEPatriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
CALVIN COOLIDGEUltimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThere is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
CALVIN COOLIDGEAmerican ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThere 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.
CALVIN COOLIDGELiberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWhat we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
CALVIN COOLIDGEMoney will not purchase character or good government.
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