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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Calvin Coolidge

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Calvin Coolidge
Age: 60 †
Born: 1872
Born: July 4
Died: 1933
Died: January 5
30Th U.S. President
Autobiographer
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Statesperson
Plymouth Notch
Vermont
John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
John Calvin Coolidge
President Coolidge
J. C. Coolidge
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.
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Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
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Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief above all be brief.
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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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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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These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.
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If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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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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It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.
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It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
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I do not choose to run for President in 1928.
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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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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Work is not a curse it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.
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The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
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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 draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
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