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Calvin Coolidge

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


— Calvin Coolidge


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


— Calvin Coolidge


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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.


— Calvin Coolidge


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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.


— Calvin Coolidge


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


— Calvin Coolidge


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


— Calvin Coolidge


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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.


— Calvin Coolidge


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


— Calvin Coolidge


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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.


— Calvin Coolidge


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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.


— Calvin Coolidge


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Did you know about Calvin Coolidge?

He returned to Washington the next day and was re-sworn in by Justice Adolph A. Coolidge continued the previous administration's policy not to recognize the Soviet Union. "I think the American people want a solemn ass as a President" he once told Ethel Barrymore "and I think I will go along with them.

As a Coolidge biographer put it "He embodied the spirit and hopes of the middle class could interpret their longings and express their opinions. Coolidge restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration and left office with considerable popularity. That he did represent the genius of the average is the most convincing proof of his strength.

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