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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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It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
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Realizing that we can not live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed of our resources and our counsel to the relief of the suffering and the settlement of the disputes among the European nations. 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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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
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Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.
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It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.
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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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These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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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 in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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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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Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality. Their works survive.
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America's present need is not heroics, but healing not nostrums, but normalcy not revolution, but restoration not agitation, but adjustment not surgery, but serenity not the dramatic, but the dispassionate not experiment, but equipoise not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.
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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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If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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The chief business of the American people is business.
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Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
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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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