We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
CALVIN COOLIDGETeaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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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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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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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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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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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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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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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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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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