Coolidge, Calvin quotes

1872-1933 Thirtieth President of the USA

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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Civil Rights

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Credulity

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Critics and Criticism

The business of the country is business.
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Business

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Honor

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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Heroes and Heroism

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Growth

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Ideals and Idealism

No one every listened themselves out of a job.
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Listening

You can t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Knowledge

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Law and Lawyers

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Politicians and Politics

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
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Profits

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Property

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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Progress

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Prosperity

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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Perseverance

Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Patriotism

Don t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Strength

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
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Service

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
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Risk

No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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Talkativeness

If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Trials

If you don t say anything, you won t be called on to repeat it.
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Silence

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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Right and Rightness

The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
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America

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Army and Navy

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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Words

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face 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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Wisdom

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Work

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
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Worship

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Vision