To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
CALVIN COOLIDGEI have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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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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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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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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The 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.
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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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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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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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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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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local 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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