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We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
Calvin Coolidge
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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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John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
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The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility.
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Character is the only secure foundation of the state.
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War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.
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Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.
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Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.
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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.
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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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Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.
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The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.
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Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.
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Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.
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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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Work is not a curse it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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