Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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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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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
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One with the law is a majority.
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They 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.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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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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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.