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Calvin Coolidge
Age: 60 †
Born: 1872
Born: July 4
Died: 1933
Died: January 5
30Th U.S. President
Autobiographer
Lawyer
Politician
Statesperson
Plymouth Notch
Vermont
John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
John Calvin Coolidge
President Coolidge
J. C. Coolidge
C. Coolidge
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.
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I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.
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Nobody will ever forget what I've accomplished.
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All growth depends upon activity.
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The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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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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[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
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We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.
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The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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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.
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A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great.
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Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.
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If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.
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Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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