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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
Worse
Either
Business
Better

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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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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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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman preeminent in the history of our nation who did not reach their place through toil. I cannot think of anything that represents the American people as a whole so adequately as honest work.
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Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.
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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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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible
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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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Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.
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Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
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Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.
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You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Character is the only secure foundation of the state.
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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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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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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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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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The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession ofa police officer, but having chosen it, everyone is obliged to live up to the standard of its requirements. To join in that high enterprise means the surrender of much individual freedom.
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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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