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Self Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
- What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been…
- Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This…
- It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion
- Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past…
- 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....…
- No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted…
- It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for…
- Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe…
- Self-government means self support.
- We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the…
- Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
- The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden