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Character is the only secure foundation of the state.

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
Vermont
John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
John Calvin Coolidge
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Business will be either better or worse.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.
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Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
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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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It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.
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Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.
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[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
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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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There is no substitute for a militant freedom.
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The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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