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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEThey criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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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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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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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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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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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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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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