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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
Autobiographer
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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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We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.
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The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.
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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 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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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.
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Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.
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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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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.
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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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In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope-nothing of man.
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Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
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