We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
CALVIN COOLIDGEEducation should be the handmaid of citizenship.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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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.
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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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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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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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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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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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