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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThere 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.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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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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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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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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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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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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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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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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The 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.
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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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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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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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