Calvin Coolidge Quotes

• Character is the only secure foundation of the state.

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• Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn’t appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

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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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• It takes a great man to be a good listener.

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

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• You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.

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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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• No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war.

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• Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

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

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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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• They hired the money, didn’t they?

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• They criticize me for harping on the obvious – If all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

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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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• 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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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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