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It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

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
Vermont
John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
John Calvin Coolidge
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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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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While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more tolerable and life more complete, has to be supplied by the genius of the people themselves. The Government can supply no substitute for enterprise.
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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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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.
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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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