The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
CALVIN COOLIDGEIt is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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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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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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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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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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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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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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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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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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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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