Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe 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.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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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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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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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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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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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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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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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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Life is one darn thing after another.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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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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Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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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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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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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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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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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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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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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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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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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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