When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
CALVIN COOLIDGEMan everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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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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It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Teaching 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.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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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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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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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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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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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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Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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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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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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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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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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The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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