Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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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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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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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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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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