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Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
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
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The chief business of the American people is business.
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America's present need is not heroics, but healing not nostrums, but normalcy not revolution, but restoration not agitation, but adjustment not surgery, but serenity not the dramatic, but the dispassionate not experiment, but equipoise not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.
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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.
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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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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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Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.
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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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Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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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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The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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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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There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men!
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