The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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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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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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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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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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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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