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It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
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.
John Calvin Coolidge
President Coolidge
J. C. Coolidge
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America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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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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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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No enterprise can exist for itself alone.
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It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion.
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Nobody will ever forget what I've accomplished.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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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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All growth depends upon activity.
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Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.
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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
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A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.
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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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Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.
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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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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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