Calvin Coolidge Quotes

• After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

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• Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

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• I suppose I am the most powerful man in the world, but great power doesn’t mean much except great limitations.

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• Not all those who are attempting to conduct successful businesses are profiteers.

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• There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

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• Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

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• If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it.

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• 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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• The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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• They hired the money, didn’t they?

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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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• Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

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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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• Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

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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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• Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. There are only two main theories of government in the world. One rests on righteousness and the other on force. One appeals to reason, the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in a republic, the other is represented by a despotism.
  The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of men. Of course we can help to restrain the vicious and furnish a fair degree of security and protection by legislation and police control, but the real reform which society in these days is seeking will come as a result of religious convictions, or they will not come at all. Peace, justice, charity- these cannot be legislated into being. They are the result of Divine Grace.

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• Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

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• Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

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• Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

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Calvin Coolidge (85)

Birth:	4th July, 1872
Death:	5th January, 1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, President

About

John Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His conduct during the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action. Soon after, he was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, and also as a man who said very little.

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