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Calvin Coolidge
Age: 60 †
Born: 1872
Born: July 4
Died: 1933
Died: January 5
30Th U.S. President
Autobiographer
Lawyer
Politician
Statesperson
Plymouth Notch
Vermont
John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
John Calvin Coolidge
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J. C. Coolidge
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I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise.
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There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
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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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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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Nobody will ever forget what I've accomplished.
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Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
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We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.
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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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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.
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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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As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.
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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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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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I always enjoy animal acts.
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The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. ... The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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