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.
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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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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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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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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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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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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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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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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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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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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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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