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It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

I always enjoy animal acts.

Silence can never be misquoted.

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Advertising is the life of trade.

Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.

War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.

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.

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Look well to the hearthstone; therein all hope for America lies.

Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

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.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

I do not choose to run for President in 1928.

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

Anytime you don't want anything you get it.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government ...

Money will not purchase character or good government.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.

The final solution for unemployment is work.

The country is not in good condition.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.

One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense ...

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

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.

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.

If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure 9 will go in the ditch and you have only one to battle with.

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

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.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.

The world is full of educated derelicts

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.

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.

The business of the country is business.

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

The Business of Our Firm is Business"
-Donald W. Hudspeth from:
"The Business of America is Business"
-Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

Life is one darn thing after another.

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.

I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

You don't have to explain something you never said.

No person was ever honored for what he recieved. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.