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 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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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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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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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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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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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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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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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 is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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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 right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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