Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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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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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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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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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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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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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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The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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