In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
CALVIN COOLIDGEGovernments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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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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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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You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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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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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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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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