America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
CALVIN COOLIDGEOne of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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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 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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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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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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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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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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