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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
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.
Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.
I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.
Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
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
Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.
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.
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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.
Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.
I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.
Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine."
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.
Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.
There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.
History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.
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.
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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.
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.
The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!
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.
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
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.
In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.
It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.
Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.
We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.