In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWe cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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If 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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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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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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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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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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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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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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