There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
CALVIN COOLIDGEI have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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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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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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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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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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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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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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