The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
CALVIN COOLIDGEDoubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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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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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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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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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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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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