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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEKnowledge 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.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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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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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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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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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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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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