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Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.
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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Plymouth Notch
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John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
John Calvin Coolidge
President Coolidge
J. C. Coolidge
C. Coolidge
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No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.
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We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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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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War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.
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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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I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.
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America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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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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Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.
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If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.
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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 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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I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise.
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Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
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No enterprise can exist for itself alone.
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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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Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.
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