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It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.
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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John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
John Calvin Coolidge
President Coolidge
J. C. Coolidge
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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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There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.
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Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.
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I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out there. I don't recall any candidate for President that ever injured himself very much by not talking.
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The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.
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Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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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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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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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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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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One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.
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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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Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service.
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If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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