I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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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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.
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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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We 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.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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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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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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