There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
CALVIN COOLIDGEFreedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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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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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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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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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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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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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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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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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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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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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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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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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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