All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
From Calvin Coolidge
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.
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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.
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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.
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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