There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWhen more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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 higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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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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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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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 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 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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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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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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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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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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