One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe 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.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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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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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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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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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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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.
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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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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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