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 I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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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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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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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow
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One with the law is a majority.
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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I have never been hurt by anything I didn`t say.
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Don`t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
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The chief business of the American people is business.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men 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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"If you don`t say anything, you won`t be called on to repeat it."
"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."
"I do not choose to run for president in 1928."
"There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, any time, anywhere." (When justifying his decision as Governor of Massachusetts to fire striking members of the Boston Police.)
"I thought I could swing it." (When asked what he was thinking when told that Warren Harding had died and that, consequently, he was now automatically the new President of the United States.)
"Let the guilty be punished." (Commenting on the revelation that several members of of his predecessor`s cabinet were implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal.)
"Four-fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would only sit down and keep still."
"Do the day`s work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don`t be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don`t be a demagogue. Don`t hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don`t hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don`t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don`t hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation."
Trivia
When he died in 1933, he left his entire estate, valued at $700,000, entirely to his wife Grace.
He was the last "true blue" conservative to win the Republican nomination until Barry Goldwater in 1964.
Oddly ironic that, though Coolidge was known as `Silent Cal," he was the first president to talk on film, in "Calvin Coolidge Taken On The White House Grounds," with Lee De Forest behind the camera.
First U.S. president to appear in a synchronized sound film.
Cousin of Gov. William Wallace Stickney.
Was the first Vice President to attend Cabinet meetings on a regular basis, at the invitation of President Warren G. Harding. Prior to Cooldige, all Vice Presidents had been excluded from Cabinet meetings.
Was sworn in as President on August 3, 1923, by his father in Vermont, where he was vacationing at the time. He is the only U.S. president to have the oath of office administered by his father. Coolidge had to take the oath of office again a few weeks later when it was revealed that his father, who was a notary public for the State of Vermont, did not have the authority to swear in federal officials.
His favorite activity was riding his mechanical horse which he kept stored in his bedroom.
Coolidge had a quiet, dull personality. His headstone in Massachusetts is very much the same, it is slate gray with the Presidential seal, his name, the date and nothing else.
Because of his icy demeaner a woman once approached him as a party and bet that she could get him to say more than two words. Unsmiling, Coolidge said "You lose".
Contrary to popular legend, he never said "The business of America is business".
Suffered from asthma. Because he distrusted physicians, he treated himself with patent medicines and breathed chlorine released into the air of a closed room in futile attempts to alleviate his asthma.
Vice President of United States (1921-1923).
Member of Massachusetts General Court(1907-1908).
Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts (1910-1911).
Massachusetts State Senator (1912-1915).
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1916-1918).
Governor of Massachusetts (1919-1920).
12th cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Pictured on the $5.00 US postage stamp in the Presidential Series, issued 17 November 1938.
Has been called "The Dullest President of All Time."
30th president of The United States (1923-29).
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