Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThere is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Teaching 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.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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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.
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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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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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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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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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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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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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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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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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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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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 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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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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