Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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I think the American people want a solemn ass as a President and I think I will go along with them.
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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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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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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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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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The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.
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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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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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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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A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.
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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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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
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There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
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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.
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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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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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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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It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
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It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.