Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThe attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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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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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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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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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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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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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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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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