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The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.
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
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John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
John Calvin Coolidge
President Coolidge
J. C. Coolidge
C. 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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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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Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.
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One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.
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I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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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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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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Realizing that we can not live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed of our resources and our counsel to the relief of the suffering and the settlement of the disputes among the European nations. Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.
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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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If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.
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