If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
CALVIN COOLIDGEI have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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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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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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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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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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