You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
CALVIN COOLIDGETo live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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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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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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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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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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If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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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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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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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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