Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
CALVIN COOLIDGETo live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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 have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Life is one darn thing after another.
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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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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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