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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
President Coolidge
J. C. Coolidge
C. Coolidge
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Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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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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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
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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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I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.
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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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[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
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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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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.
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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Character is the only secure foundation of the state.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.
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Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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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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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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