When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWhen people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
CALVIN COOLIDGEUnless 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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEI have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
CALVIN COOLIDGESchool is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
CALVIN COOLIDGEDoubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
CALVIN COOLIDGEAmerican ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
CALVIN COOLIDGEYour ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe 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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEYou don’t have to explain something you never said.
CALVIN COOLIDGEUltimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
CALVIN COOLIDGEKnowledge 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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWhat we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
CALVIN COOLIDGENever go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEIf the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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