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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEPolitics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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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 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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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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