Calvin Coolidge Quotes

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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Politics Yourself
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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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
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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Forever Freedom Law Religious
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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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End Pay People Rich Talk
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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Funny Humor Law Myself People
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
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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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
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.
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Direction Hard Work Knowledge Maturity Simplicity Wisdom
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
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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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
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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Art End Government Mean Politics
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman

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