If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
CALVIN COOLIDGEFreedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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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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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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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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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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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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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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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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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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