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Money will not purchase character or good government.

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Calvin Coolidge
Age: 60 †
Born: 1872
Born: July 4
Died: 1933
Died: January 5
30Th U.S. President
Autobiographer
Lawyer
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Plymouth Notch
Vermont
John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
John Calvin Coolidge
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Character is the only secure foundation of the state.
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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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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
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The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights of citizens ought to be protected with every power and resource of the state, and a government that does any less is false to the teachings of that great document - false to the name American.
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Civilisation and profits go hand in hand.
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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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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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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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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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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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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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