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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
Hardwork
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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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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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.
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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade.
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A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.
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The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American
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Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
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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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Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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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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