Money will not purchase character or good government.
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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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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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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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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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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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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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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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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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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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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