Calvin Coolidge Quotes

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• Nothing in this 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.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.

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  Selfish, Taken, Government

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

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  Strength, Peace, Strong

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely for the purpose of protecting ourselves. We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.

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  Race, Government, America

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• Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

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  Life, Play, Advertising

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• Silence can never be misquoted.

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  Silence

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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Life, Relationship, Wisdom

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

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  Knowledge, Too Much, Knows

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• Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

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  Giving Up, Disappointment, Faces

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• You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

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  Prosperity, Increase

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• Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

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  Information, Firsts, Source

  "The Press Under a Free Government". Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, January 17, 1925.

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• That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

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  Men, Years, Advice

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By recognizing that he is a part of a larger body which is banded together for a common purpose, he becomes more than an individual, he rises to a new dignity of citizenship. Instead of finding himself restricted and confined by rendering obedience to public law, he finds himself protected and defended and in the exercise of increased and increasing rights.

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  Exercise, Rights, Law

  "Freedom and its Obligations". Speech at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, May 30, 1924.

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• A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

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  Government, People, Presidential

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• 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 the law for the virtues of men.

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  Country, Men, Law

  "Address at the Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue of Bishop Francis Asbury, Washington, DC". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 15, 1924.

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• Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

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  Liberty, Libertarian, Individualism

  "Authority and Religious Liberty". Address before the Holy Name Society, Washington, D.C., archive.org. September 21, 1924.

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• The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

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  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

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  Rights, Republic, Individual

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• We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. It is on that side of life that it is desirable to put the emphasis at the present time. If that side be strengthened, the other side will take care of itself.

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  Spiritual, Character, Government

  Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”

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• You don't have to explain something you never said.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Silence, Said

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• Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

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  Achievement, Doubters, Achieve

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

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  Reason, Should, Force

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.

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  Passion, Commitment, Persistence

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• I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person might hold. It is a fundamental tenet of our institutions that people have a right to believe what they want to believe and hold such opinions as they want to hold without having to answer to anyone for their private opinion.

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  Sorry, Believe, People

  Ferrell, Calvin Coolidge, Robert H. Ferrell, Howard H. Quint (1979). “TALKATIVE PRESIDENT OFF”, Dissertations-G

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