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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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.
John Calvin Coolidge
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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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We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.
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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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No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.
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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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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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Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
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There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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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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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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They criticize me for harping on the obvious if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.
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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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Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.
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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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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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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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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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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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