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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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Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.
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There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.
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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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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.
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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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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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As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.
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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible
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Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
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One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.
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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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Character is the only secure foundation of the state.
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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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Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.
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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 not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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