We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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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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The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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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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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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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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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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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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