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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEDoubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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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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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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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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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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