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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

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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Plymouth Notch
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John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service.
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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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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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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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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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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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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American
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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 want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.
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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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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.
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Civilisation and profits go hand in hand.
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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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