All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
CALVIN COOLIDGEGovernments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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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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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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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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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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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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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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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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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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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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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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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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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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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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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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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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There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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