Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
CALVIN COOLIDGENothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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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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Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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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 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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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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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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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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