Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
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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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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Along with this element of universal tolerance, I should couple our Republican system of Government, which gives to every man a share and a responsibility in the direction of public affairs. And third, I should place our system of universal free education.
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To such a memorial as exists here we can only come in a spirit of humility and of gratitude. We can not hope to repay those whom we are assembled to honor. They were moved by a noble conception of human possibilities and human destiny. But we can undertake to find what was their inspiration and seek to make it our guide. By that they will be recompensed.
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Your letter is received, accompanied by a newspaper clipping which discusses the possibility that a colored man may be the Republican nominee for Congress from one of the New York districts.
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We Americans are idealists. We are willing to follow the truth solely because it is the truth. We put our main emphasis on the things which are spiritual. While we possess an unsurpassed skill in marshaling and using the material resources of the world, still the nation has not sought for wealth and power as an end but as a means to a higher life.
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.
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Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
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It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.
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It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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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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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Another matter before the Congress is legislation affecting the labor sections of the transportation act. Much criticism has been directed at the workings of this section and experience has shown that some useful amendment could be made to these provisions.
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No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
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To be independent to my mind does not mean to be isolated, to be the priest or the Levite, but rather to be the good Samaritan. There is no real independence save only as we secure it through the law of service.