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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
President Coolidge
J. C. Coolidge
C. Coolidge
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Silence
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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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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.
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Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service.
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There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
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[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
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Work is not a curse it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.
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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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Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.
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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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Civilisation and profits go hand in hand.
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.
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I always enjoy animal acts.
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Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important and that his work well done is a part of an unending plan.
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Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
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Business will be either better or worse.
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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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