Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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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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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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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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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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