It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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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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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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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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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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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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