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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.
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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John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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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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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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I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.
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We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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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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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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Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
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If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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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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If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.
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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.
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If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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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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To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.
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