Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
CALVIN COOLIDGEIn a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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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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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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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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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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