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.
CALVIN COOLIDGESilence can never be misquoted.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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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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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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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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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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