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 COOLIDGEPatriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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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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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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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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