Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
CALVIN COOLIDGESchool is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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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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The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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