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You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.
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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Plymouth Notch
Vermont
John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
John Calvin Coolidge
President Coolidge
J. C. Coolidge
C. Coolidge
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Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.
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I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.
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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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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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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.
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America's present need is not heroics, but healing not nostrums, but normalcy not revolution, but restoration not agitation, but adjustment not surgery, but serenity not the dramatic, but the dispassionate not experiment, but equipoise not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
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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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It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.
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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise.
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Character is the only secure foundation of the state.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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