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I Have Done It [appointed Commissions] Regretfully And With The Hope That It Would Be Temporary. But After A Commission Is Established You Find It Always Wants To Enlarge Itself, Employ More People, Is Very Busy With Senators And Congressmen To Impress Upon Them The Great Value Of The Services Of The Commission, And Even When I Talk To People That I Appoint To Commissions And Tell Them I Would Like Them To Go On To Various Boards With The Idea That They May Be Abolished, They Say They Ought To Be Abolished, But When They Have Taken Their Position They Very Soon Seem To Change Their Mind.

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I Have Done It [appointed Commissions] Regretfully And With The Hope That It Would Be Temporary. But After A Commission Is Established You Find It Always Wants To Enlarge Itself, Employ More People, Is Very Busy With Senators And Congressmen To Impress Upon Them The Great Value Of The Services Of The Commission, And Even When I Talk To People That I Appoint To Commissions And Tell Them I Would Like Them To Go On To Various Boards With The Idea That They May Be Abolished, They Say They Ought To Be Abolished, But When They Have Taken Their Position They Very Soon Seem To Change Their Mind.

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The More I Study It [the Constitution], The More I Have Come To Admire It, Realizing That No Other Document Devised By The Hand Of Man Ever Brought So Much Progress And Happiness To Humanity.

The Only Way I Know To Drive Out Evil From The Country Is By The Constructive Method Of Filling It With Good.

The Words Of The President Have An Enormous Weight And Ought Not To Be Used Indiscriminately.

A Lost Article Invariably Shows Up After You Replace It.

Silence Can Never Be Misquoted.

The Centralization Of Power In Washington, Which Nearly All Members Of Congress Deplore In Their Speech And Then Support By Their Votes, Steadily Increases.

Baseball Is Our National Game.

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Well, Farmers Never Have Made Money. I Don't Believe We Can Do Much About It. But Of Course We Will Have To Seem To Be Doing Something; Do The Best We Can And Without Much Hope. The Life Of The Farmer Has Its Compensations But It Has Always Been One Of Hardship.

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What The End Of The Carnage Of World War Ii Meant To Those Who Remember It, Can Never Be Forgotten, But To All Those Who Don't, Its Meaning Can Never Be Fully Understood!

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[sun Yat-sen Is A] Combined Benjamin Franklin And George Washington Of China.

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I Have Never Been Hurt By What I Have Not Said.

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Nobody Will Ever Forget What I've Accomplished.

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Persistence And Determination Alone Are Omnipotent.

If You Can Get Enough Votes So That Mine Will Make A Majority, You Can Have It.

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The Only Hope Of A Short War Is To Prepare For A Long One.

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Don't Hesitate To Be As Revolutionary As Science. Don't Hesitate To Be As Reactionary As The Multiplication Table.

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).

I Do Not Choose To Run For President In 1928.

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Parties Do Not Maintain Themselves. They Are Maintained By Effort. The Government Is Not Self-existent. It Is Maintained By The Effort Of Those Who Believe In It. The People Of America Believe In American Institutions, The American Form Of Government And The American Method Of Transacting Business.

Good Government Cannot Be Found On The Bargain-counter. We Have Seen Samples Of Bargain-counter Government In The Past When Low Tax Rates Were Secured By Increasing The Bonded Debt For Current Expenses Or Refusing To Keep Our Institutions Up To The Standard In Repairs, Extensions, Equipment, And Accommodations. I Refuse, And The Republican Party Refuses, To Endorse That Method Of Sham And Shoddy Economy.

The Man Who Builds A Factory, Builds A Temple.

Of Course, The Accumulation Of Wealth Cannot Be Justified As The Chief End Of Existence.

You Can Display No Greater Wisdom Than By Resisting Proposals For Needless Legislation. It Is Much More Important To Kill Bad Bills Than To Pass Good Ones.

The American Revolution Represented The Informed And Mature Convictions Of A Great Mass Of Independent, Liberty-loving, God-fearing People Who Knew Their Rights, And Possessed The Courage To Dare To Maintain Them.

Education Should Be The Handmaid Of Citizenship.

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The Welfare Of The Weakest And The Welfare Of The Most Powerful Are Inseparably Bound Together. ... The General Welfare Cannot Be Provided For In Any One Act, But It Is Well To Remember That The Benefit Of One Is The Benefit Of All, And The Neglect Of One Is The Neglect Of All.

The Final Solution For Unemployment Is Work.

It Is Hard To See How A Great Man Can Be An Atheist. . . . We Need To Feel That Behind Us Is Intelligence And Love.

Some Of The Offers That Have Come To Me Would Never Have Come If I Had Not Been President. That Means These People Are Trying To Hire Not Calvin Coolidge, But A Former President Of The United States. I Can't Make That Kind Of Use Of The Office.... I Can't Do Anything That Might Take Away From The Presidency Any Of Its Dignity, Or Any Of The Faith People Have In It.

It Is Equally Clear That A Government Must Govern, Must Prescribe And Enforce Laws Within Its Sphere Or Cease To Be A Government. Moreover, The Individual Must Be Independent And Free Within His Own Sphere Or Cease To Be An Individual. The Fundamental Question Was Then, Is Now, And Always Will Be Through What Adjustments, By What Actions, These Principles May Be Applied.

It Is A Great Advantage To A President, And A Major Source Of Safety To The Country, For Him To Know He Is Not A Great Man.

There Is No Escaping The Fact That When The Taxation Of Large Incomes Is Excessive, They Tend To Disappear.

Nothing Is Easier Than Spending Public Money. It Does Not Appear To Belong To Anybody. The Temptation Is Overwhelming To Bestow It On Somebody.

There Is No Dignity Quite So Impressive, And No One Independence Quite So Important, As Living Within Your Means.

We Draw Our Presidents From The People. It Is A Wholesome Thing For Them To Return To The People. I Came From Them. I Wish To Be One Of Them Again.

There Is Far More Danger Of Harm Than There Is Hope Of Good In Any Radical Changes.

The Two Great Political Parties Of The Nation Have Existed For The Purpose, Each In Accordance With Its Own Principles, Of Undertaking To Serve The Interests Of The Whole Nation. Their Members Of The Congress Are Chosen With That Great End In View.

Doubters Do Not Achieve; Skeptics Do Not Contribute; Cynics Do Not Create.

The Business Of America Is Business.

I Should Think That An Ordinary Copy Of The King James Version Would Have Been Good Enough For Those Congressmen.

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They Criticize Me For Harping On The Obvious; If All The Folks In The United States Would Do The Few Simple Things They Know They Ought To Do, Most Of Our Big Problems Would Take Care Of Themselves.

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.

No Nation Ever Had An Army Large Enough To Guarantee It Against Attack In Time Of Peace, Or Ensure It Of Victory In Time Of War.

What We Need In Appointive Positions Is Men Of Knowledge And Experience Who Have Sufficient Character To Resist Temptations.

Wherever We Look, The Work Of The Chemist Has Raised The Level Of Our Civilization And Has Increased The Productive Capacity Of The Nation.

The Nation Which Forgets Its Defenders Will Be Itself Forgotten.

The Government Of The United States Is A Device For Maintaining In Perpetuity The Rights Of The People, With The Ultimate Extinction Of All Privileged Classes.

Faith Is The Great Motive Power, And No Man Realizes His Full Possibilities Unless He Has The Deep Conviction That Life Is Eternally Important And That His Work Well Done Is A Part Of An Unending Plan.

Heroism Is Not Only In The Man, But In The Occasion.

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When People Are Bewildered They Tend To Become Credulous.

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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.

What America Needs Is To Hold To Its Ancient And Well-charted Course. Our Country Was Conceived In The Theory Of Local Self-government. It Has Been Dedicated By Long Practice To That Wise And Beneficent Policy. It Is The Foundation Principle Of Our System Of Liberty. It Makes The Largest Promise To The Freedom And Development Of The Individual. Its Preservation Is Worth All The Effort And All The Sacrifice That It May Cost.

The Chief Business Of America Is Business.

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.

While I Do Not Think It Was So Intended I Have Always Been Of The Opinion That This Turned Out To Be Much The Best For Me. I Had No National Experience. What I Have Ever Been Able To Do Has Been The Result Of First Learning How To Do It. I Am Not Gifted With Intuition. I Need Not Only Hard Work But Experience To Be Ready To Solve Problems. The Presidents Who Have Gone To Washington Without First Having Held Some National Office Have Been At Great Disadvantage.

Industry, Thrift And Self-control Are Not Sought Because They Create Wealth, But Because They Create Character.

It Is Not Easy To Conceive Of Anything That Would Be More Unfortunate In A Community Based Upon The Ideals Of Which Americans Boast Than Any Considerable Development Of Intolerance As Regards Religion.

One Of The Greatest Dangers To Peace Lies In The Economic Pressure To Which People Find Themselves Subjected. One Of The Most Practical Things To Be Done In The World Is To Seek Arrangements Under Which Such Pressure May Be Removed, So That Opportunity May Be Renewed And Hope May Be Revived.

At First I Intended To Become A Student Of The Senate Rules And I Did Learn Much About Them, But I Soon Found That The Senate Hadbut One Fixed Rule, Subject To Exceptions Of Course, Which Was To The Effect That The Senate Would Do Anything It Wanted To Do Whenever It Wanted To Do It.

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I Love Vermont Because Of Her Hills And Valleys, Her Scenery And Invigorating Climate, But Most Of All Because Of Her Indomitable People. They Are A Race Of Pioneers Who Have Almost Beggared Themselves To Serve Others. If The Spirit Of Liberty Should Vanish In Other Parts Of The Union And Support Of Our Institutions Should Languish, It Could All Be Replenished From The Generous Store Held By The People Of This Brave Little State Of Vermont.

Our Doctrine Of Equality And Liberty And Humanity Comes From Our Belief In The Brotherhood Of Man, Through The Fatherhood Of God.

Brotherhood Of Man

We Cannot Permit Any Inquisition Either Within Or Without The Law Or Apply Any Religious Test To The Holding Of Office. The Mind Of America Must Be Forever Free.

Little Progress Can Be Made By Merely Attempting To Repress What Is Evil. Our Great Hope Lies In Developing What Is Good.

The Right Of The Police Of Boston To Affiliate Has Always Been Questioned, Never Granted, Is Now Prohibited.... There Is No Rightto Strike Against The Public Safety By Anybody, Anywhere, Any Time.

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.

Those Who Want Their Rights Respected Under The Constitution And The Law Ought To Set The Example Themselves Of Observing The Constitution And The Law. While There May Be Those Of High Intelligence Who Violate The Law At Times, The Barbarian And The Defective Always Violate It. Those Who Disregard The Rules Of Society Are Not Exhibiting A Superior Intelligence, Are Not Promoting Freedom And Independence, Are Not Following The Path Of Civilization, But Are Displaying The Traits Of Ignorance, Of Servitude, Of Savagery, And Treading The Way That Leads Back To The Jungle.

We Must Have No Carelessness In Our Dealings With Public Property Or The Expenditure Of Public Money. Such A Condition Is Characteristic Either Of An Undeveloped People, Or Of A Decadent Civilization. America Is Neither.

No Advance, No Progress Can Be Made Beyond These Propositions. If Anyone Wishes To Deny Their Truth Or Their Soundness, The Only Direction In Which He Can Proceed Historically Is Not Forward, But Backward Toward A Time When There Was No Equality, No Rights Of The Individual, No Rule Of The People. Those Who Wish To Proceed In That Direction Cannot Lay Claim To Progress. They Are Reactionary. Their Ideas Are Not More Modern, But More Ancient Than Those Of Our Revolutionary Ancestors.

After All, The Chief Business Of The American People Is Business. They Are Profoundly Concerned With Producing, Buying, Selling, Investing And Prospering In The World.

To Expect To Increase Prices And Then To Maintain Them At A Higher Level By Means Of A Plan Which Must Of Necessity Increase Production While Decreasing Consumption Is To Fly In The Face Of An Economic Law As Well Established As Any Law Of Nature.

Ultimately Property Rights And Personal Rights Are The Same Thing.

I Guess I Am Not Naturally Energetic. I Like To Sit Around And Talk.

School Is Not The End But Only The Beginning Of An Education.

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.

Industry Cannot Flourish If Labor Languish.

When A Great Many People Are Unable To Find Work, Unemployment Results.

Wherever Despotism Abounds, The Sources Of Public Information Are The First To Be Brought Under Its Control.

You Know, I Have Found In The Course Of A Long Public Life That The Things I Did Not Say Never Hurt Me.

I Want The People Of America To Be Able To Work Less For The Government And More For Themselves. I Want Them To Have The Rewards Of Their Own Industry. This Is The Chief Meaning Of Freedom. Until We Can Reestablish A Condition Under Which The Earnings Of The People Can Be Kept By The People, We Are Bound To Suffer A Very Severe And Distinct Curtailment Of Our Liberty.

We Have Too Much Legislating By Clamor, By Tumult, By Pressure. Representative Government Ceases When Outside Influence Of Any Kind Is Substituted For The Judgment Of The Representative.

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.

No Man Ever Listened Himself Out Of A Job.

Liberty Is Not Collective, It Is Personal. All Liberty Is Individual Liberty.

America Has Many Glories. The Last One That She Would Wish To Surrender Is The Glory Of The Men Who Have Served Her In War. While Such Devotion Lives, The Nation Is Secure. Whatever Dangers May Threaten From Within Or Without, She Can View Them Calmly. Turning To Her Veterans, She Can Say: 'these Are Our Defenders. They Are Invincible. In Them Is Our Safety.'

Money Will Not Purchase Character Or Good Government.

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.

The Best Help That Benevolence And Philanthropy Can Give Is That Which Induces Everybody To Help Himself.

I Favor The Policy Of Economy, Not Because I Wish To Save Money, But Because I Wish To Save People.

Knowledge Comes, But Wisdom Lingers. It May Not Be Difficult To Store Up In The Mind A Vast Quantity Of Facts Within A Comparatively Short Time, But The Ability To Form Judgments Requires The Severe Discipline Of Hard Work And The Tempering Heat Of Experience And Maturity.

In Other Periods Of Depression, It Has Always Been Possible To See Some Things Which Were Solid And Upon Which You Could Base Hope, But As I Look About, I Now See Nothing To Give Ground To Hope-nothing Of Man.

After Order And Liberty, Economy Is One Of The Highest Essentials Of A Free Government.

Prosperity Cannot Be Divorced From Humanity.

The Constitution Is The Sole Source And Guaranty Of National Freedom.

This Is As Good A Time As Any To Comment On What I Think Has Grown Into An Abuse. Congress Makes Holidays And Every Time There Isa Holiday It Is The Practice For One Department To Telephone Over To Another Department And Say We Are Going To Have An Extra Holiday In This Department And What Is Your Department Going To Do About It.... If It Comes On Saturday, They Want A Holiday On Friday, And Of Course They Couldn't Come Back And Travel On Sunday And So They Want Another Holiday On Monday To Get Back On.

One With The Law Is A Majority.

You Don't Have To Explain Something You Never Said.

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.

Governments Do Not Make Ideals, But Ideals Make Governments. This Is Both Historically And Logically True. Of Course The Government Can Help To Sustain Ideals And Can Create Institutions Through Which They Can Be The Better Observed, But Their Source By Their Very Nature Is In The People. The People Have To Bear Their Own Responsibilities. There Is No Method By Which That Burden Can Be Shifted To The Government. It Is Not The Enactment, But The Observance Of Laws, That Creates The Character Of A Nation.

One Of The Greatest Favors That Can Be Bestowed Upon The American People Is Economy In Government.

Perhaps One Of The Most Important Accomplishments Of My Administration Has Been Minding My Own Business.

Our Government Rests Upon Religion. It Is From That Source That We Derive Our Reverance For Truth And Justice, For Equality And Liberty, And For The Rights Of Mankind. Unless The People Believe In These Principles They Cannot Believe In Our Government.

Christmas Is Not A Time Or A Season But A State Of Mind.

Any Reward That Is Worth Having Only Comes To The Industrious. The Success Which Is Made In Any Walk Of Life Is Measured Almost Exactly By The Amount Of Hard Work That Is Put Into It.

Workmen’s Compensation, Hours And Conditions Of Labor Are Cold Consolations, If There Be No Employment.

Civilization And Profit Go Hand In Hand.

It Would Be Difficult To Conceive A Finer Example Of True Sport.

Prosperity Is Only An Instrument To Be Used, Not A Deity To Be Worshipped.

History Reveals No Civilized People Among Whom There Was Not A Highly Educated Class And Large Aggregations Of Wealth. Large Profits Mean Large Payrolls.

Nordics Deteriorate When Mixed With Other Races.

Economy Is The Method By Which We Prepare Today To Afford The Improvements Of Tomorrow.

We Identify The Flag With Almost Everything We Hold Dear On Earth, Peace, Security, Liberty, Our Family, Our Friends, Our Home. . .but When We Look At Our Flag And Behold It Emblazoned With All Our Rights We Must Remember That It Is Equally A Symbol Of Our Duties. Every Glory That We Associate With It Is The Result Of Duty Done.

No Enterprise Can Exist For Itself Alone.

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Can Those Entrusted With The Gravest Authority Set Any Example Save That Of The Sternest Obedience To The Law?

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.

Men Speak Of Natural Rights, But I Challenge Any One To Show Where In Nature Any Rights Existed Or Were Recognized Until There Was Established For Their Declaration And Protection A Duly Promulgated Body Of Corresponding Laws.

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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