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 COOLIDGEEconomy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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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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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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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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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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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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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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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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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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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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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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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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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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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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