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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
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John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession ofa police officer, but having chosen it, everyone is obliged to live up to the standard of its requirements. To join in that high enterprise means the surrender of much individual freedom.
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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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The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.
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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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[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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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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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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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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No enterprise can exist for itself alone.
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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.
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Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief above all be brief.
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America's present need is not heroics, but healing not nostrums, but normalcy not revolution, but restoration not agitation, but adjustment not surgery, but serenity not the dramatic, but the dispassionate not experiment, but equipoise not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.
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I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.
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War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.
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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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