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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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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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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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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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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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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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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It has seemed to me that our search for this mysterious factor of difference must lead to the conclusion that it was not a single factor but the united workings of at least three forces, that brought about the wide difference.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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One with the law is a majority.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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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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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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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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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.