You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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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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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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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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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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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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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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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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