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 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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Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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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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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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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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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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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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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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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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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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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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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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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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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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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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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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