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.
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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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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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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Silence can never be misquoted.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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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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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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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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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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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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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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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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No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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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 right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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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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