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

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Calvin Coolidge
Age: 60 †
Born: 1872
Born: July 4
Died: 1933
Died: January 5
30Th U.S. President
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Plymouth Notch
Vermont
John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
John Calvin Coolidge
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J. C. Coolidge
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.
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In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope-nothing of man.
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War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.
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Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.
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Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.
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A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.
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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.
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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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Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.
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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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