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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge
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Calvin Coolidge
Age: 60 †
Born: 1872
Born: July 4
Died: 1933
Died: January 5
30Th U.S. President
Autobiographer
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Plymouth Notch
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John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
John Calvin Coolidge
President Coolidge
J. C. Coolidge
C. Coolidge
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Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.
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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.
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A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.
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It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than it is under an absolute government that they should be ignorant. Under a republic the institutions of learning, while bound by the constitution and laws, are in no way subservient to the government.
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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service.
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Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.
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While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more tolerable and life more complete, has to be supplied by the genius of the people themselves. The Government can supply no substitute for enterprise.
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Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.
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I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.
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