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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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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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There is no substitute for a militant freedom.
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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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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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Civilisation and profits go hand in hand.
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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.
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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
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The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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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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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
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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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[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.
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I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.
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Silence can never be misquoted.
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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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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.
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