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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.

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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John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
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America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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I do not choose to run for President in 1928.
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We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
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Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.
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We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.
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[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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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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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Business will be either better or worse.
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Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service.
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We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.
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One with the law is a majority.
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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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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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Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.
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There is no substitute for a militant freedom.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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