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We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

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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
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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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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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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Nobody will ever forget what I've accomplished.
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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.
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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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Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.
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The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.
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I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.
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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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It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.
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Civilisation and profits go hand in hand.
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Business will be either better or worse.
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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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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important and that his work well done is a part of an unending plan.
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It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than it is under an absolute government that they should be ignorant. Under a republic the institutions of learning, while bound by the constitution and laws, are in no way subservient to the government.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
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