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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWe are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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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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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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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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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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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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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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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 best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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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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