Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWhen more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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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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If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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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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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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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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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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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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Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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