When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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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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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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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.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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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 best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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