Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
CALVIN COOLIDGEWe want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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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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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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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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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Silence can never be misquoted.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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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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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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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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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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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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