If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe final solution for unemployment is work.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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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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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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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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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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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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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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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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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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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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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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