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• Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

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• 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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• There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

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

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

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

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• In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

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• Education will not take the place of persistence the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

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• Duty is not collective; it is personal.

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

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

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

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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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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people 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. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

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

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• If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

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

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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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