When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWhen people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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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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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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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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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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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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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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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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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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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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