What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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
-
-
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Life is one darn thing after another.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
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.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
The final solution for unemployment is work.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
CALVIN COOLIDGE -
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
CALVIN COOLIDGE