Calvin Coolidge Quotes

• We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

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• I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I’ll go along with them.

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• He said he was against it.

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• The business of the country is business.

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• Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.

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• When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

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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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• Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

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• Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

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• The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

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

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• There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

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• I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

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• The school is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

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• I have never been hurt by anything I didn’t say.

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

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• When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

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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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