Top 100 Calvin Coolidge Quotes
#1. In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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#3. At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.
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#4. 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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#5. There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men!
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#7. Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not denial of the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men.
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#8. There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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#9. The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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#10. Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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#11. There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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#12. The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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#13. If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
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#14. We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
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#15. It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
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#16. 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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#17. If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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#18. [Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ... combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
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#19. Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.
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#20. Look well to the hearthstone; therein all hope for America lies.
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#21. It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion.
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#22. Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.
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#23. The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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#24. 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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#25. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
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#26. While we should not refuse to spend and be spent in the service of our country, it is hazardous to attempt what we feel is beyond our strength to accomplish.
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#27. Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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#28. A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government ...
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#29. Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.
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#30. It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.
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#31. Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.
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#32. These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.
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#33. I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.
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#34. The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them.
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#35. If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.
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#36. We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people ... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.
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#37. A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great.
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#38. The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.
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#39. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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#41. The nation which forgets it defenders will be itself forgotten.
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#43. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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#44. I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.
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#45. 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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#46. There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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#47. 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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#48. It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe ... that there can be ... stability of value and ... economic progress ...
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#49. You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.
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#50. The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.
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#51. To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to ... make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.
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#52. The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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#53. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!
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#55. The Business of Our Firm is Business"
-Donald W. Hudspeth from:
"The Business of America is Business"
-Calvin Coolidge
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#56. Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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#57. We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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#58. If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.
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#61. What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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#62. If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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#64. 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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#65. There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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#66. Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first ... If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first ... one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.
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#67. The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.
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#69. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.
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#70. The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.
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#71. 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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#72. 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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#74. Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.
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#77. IT is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try. The more I see of life the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.
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#79. Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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#80. The chief business of the American people is business.
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#81. Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.
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#82. It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine.
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#83. There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.
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#84. Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
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#87. To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase production while decreasing consumption is to fly in the face of an economic law as well established as any law of nature.
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#88. There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.
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#90. The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.
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#92. Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
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#93. Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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#94. Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
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#96. Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.
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#97. We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege; but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.
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#98. The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.
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#99. This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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#100. The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.
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