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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
Vermont
John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
John Calvin Coolidge
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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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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.
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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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You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
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I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.
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Civilisation and profits go hand in hand.
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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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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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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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The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.
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Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.
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It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.
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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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