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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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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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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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The chief business of the American people is business.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.
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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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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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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.
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Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.
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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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Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.
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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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We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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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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We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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