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• It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than it is under an absolute government that they should be ignorant. Under a republic the institutions of learning, while bound by the constitution and laws, are in no way subservient to the government.

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  Education, Government, Law

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• To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world." ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).

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  Christmas, Stars, Xmas

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• The chief business of the American people is business.

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  Business, People, Chiefs

  Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors,Washington, D.C., 17 Jan. 1925.

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• Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

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  Spiritual, Business, Responsibility

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• Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

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  4th Of July, Heart, America

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• The things I never say never get me into trouble.

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  Trouble, Never Say Never

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

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  Trust, Risk, Chance

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• Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

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  Wealth, Justified, Ends

  "The Resonant Words, and Wisdom, of 'Silent Cal'" by Carl M. Cannon, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 07, 2015.

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• Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.

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  Humanity, Prosperity, Divorced

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• Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service.

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  Country, Real, Mean

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• The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored people is one which, however it might be received in some other quarters, could not possibly be permitted by one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution.

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  Taken, Party, Responsibility

  Letter to Charles F. Gardner, August 9, 1924.

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• Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

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  Mean, Civilization, Curse

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

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• One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .

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  Government, Practice, Division

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• I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

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  People, Economy, Conception

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• The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc... the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.

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  Love, People, Navy

  New York Herald Tribune, p. 1, August 5, 1930.

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• If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.

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  Justice, Fairness, Shows

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.

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  People, Presidential, Debt

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• If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.

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  Rights, People, Wish

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• To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.

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  Educational, Names, Humanity

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• The business of the country is business.

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  Country, Business

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• Advertising is the life of trade.

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  Business, Advertising, Trade

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• Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

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  Development, Demand, Advertising

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

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  Life, Hurt, Long

  "The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century".

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• No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

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  Business, Educational, Needs

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• Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine."

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  Israel, Expression, Presidential

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