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In Its Main Features The Declaration Of Independence Is A Great Spiritual Document. It Is A Declaration Not Of Material But Of Spiritual Conceptions. Equality, Liberty, Popular Sovereignty, The Rights Of Man - These Are Not Elements Which We Can See And Touch. They Are Ideals. They Have Their Source And Their Roots In The Religious Convictions. They Belong To The Unseen World. Unless The Faith Of The American People In These Religious Convictions Is To Endure, The Principles Of Our Declaration Will Perish. We Can Not Continue To Enjoy The Result If We Neglect And Abandon The Cause.
-Calvin Coolidge
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In Its Main Features

Calvin Coolidge
In Its Main Features The Declaration Of Independence Is A Great Spiritual Document. It Is A Declaration Not Of Material But Of Spiritual Conceptions. Equality, Liberty, Popular Sovereignty, The Rights Of Man - These Are Not Elements Which We Can See And Touch. They Are Ideals. They Have Their Source And Their Roots In The Religious Convictions. They Belong To The Unseen World. Unless The Faith Of The American People In These Religious Convictions Is To Endure, The Principles Of Our Declaration Will Perish. We Can Not Continue To Enjoy The Result If We Neglect And Abandon The Cause.
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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.
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The Duties Which A Police Officer Owes To The State Are Of A Most Exacting Nature. No One Is Compelled To Choose The Profession Ofa Police Officer, But Having Chosen It, Everyone Is Obliged To Live Up To The Standard Of Its Requirements. To Join In That High Enterprise Means The Surrender Of Much Individual Freedom.
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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.
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You Don't Have To Explain Something You Never Said.
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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.
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America's Present Need Is Not Heroics, But Healing; Not Nostrums, But Normalcy; Not Revolution, But Restoration; Not Agitation, But Adjustment; Not Surgery, But Serenity; Not The Dramatic, But The Dispassionate; Not Experiment, But Equipoise; Not Submergence In Internationality, But Sustainment In Triumphant Nationality.
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The Most Common Commodity In This Country Is Unrealized Potential.
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Vision
Common
If You Can Get Enough Votes So That Mine Will Make A Majority, You Can Have It.
Majority
Politics
Vote
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.
People
Wish
President
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.
Selfish
Taken
Government
It Seems To Me Probable That Of All Our Economic Life The Element On Which We Are Inclined To Place Too Low An Estimate Is Advertising.
Business
Elements
Advertising
Surprisingly Few Men Are Lacking In Capacity, But They Fail Because... They Are Too Indolent To Apply Themselves With The Seriousness And The Attention That Is Necessary To Solve Important Problems.
Men
Important
Attention
You Know, I Have Found In The Course Of A Long Public Life That The Things I Did Not Say Never Hurt Me.
Life
Hurt
Long
As I Went About With My Father, When He Collected Taxes, I Knew That When Taxes Were Laid Someone Had To Work Hard To Earn The Money To Pay Them.
Father
Hard Work
President
We Do Not Need More Intellectual Power, We Need More Spiritual Power. We Do Not Need More Of The Things That Are Seen, We Need More Of The Things That Are Unseen.
Spiritual
Intellectual
Vision
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.
Rights
People
Wish
Never Go Out To Meet Trouble. If You Just Sit Still, Nine Cases Out Of Ten, Someone Will Intercept It Before It Reaches You.
Political
Politics
Nine
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.
Mean
Office
People
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.
Inspirational
Motivational
Strength
Theodore Roosevelt Was Always Getting Himself In Hot Water By Talking Before He Had To Commit Himself Upon Issues Not Well-defined.
Talking
Issues
Water
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.
Life
Play
Advertising
I Have Found It Advisable Not To Give Too Much Heed To What People Say When I Am Trying To Accomplish Something Of Consequence. Invariably They Proclaim It Can't Be Done. I Deem That The Very Best Time To Make The Effort.
People
Giving
Effort
There Is No Right To Strike Against The Public Safety By Anybody, Anywhere, Any Time.
Time
Safety
Strikes
The Man Who Builds A Factory, Builds A Temple.
Men
Temples
He Man
Patriotism Is Easy To Understand In America. It Means Looking Out For Yourself By Looking Out For Your Country.
Country
4th Of July
Mean
We Demand Entire Freedom Of Action And Then Expect The Government In Some Miraculous Way To Save Us From The Consequences Of Our Own Acts.... Self-government Means Self-reliance.
Mean
Government
Self
Of Course, The Accumulation Of Wealth Cannot Be Justified As The Chief End Of Existence.
Wealth
Justified
Ends
If We Expect Others To Rely On Our Fairness And Justice We Must Show That We Rely On Their Fairness And Justice.
Justice
Fairness
Shows
Why Don't We Just Buy One Airplane And Let The Pilots Take Turns Flying It.
Airplane
Flying
Air Power
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.
Education
Government
Law
There Is No Escaping The Fact That When The Taxation Of Large Incomes Is Excessive, They Tend To Disappear.
Escaping
Income
Taxation
If American Democracy Is To Remain The Greatest Hope Of Humanity, It Must Continue Abundantly In The Faith Of The Bible
Presidential
Humanity
Democracy
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.
Independent
Rights
People
Business Will Be Either Better Or Worse.
Business
What Men Owe To The Love And Help Of Good Women Can Never Be Told.
Men
Good Woman
Helping
Doubters Do Not Achieve; Skeptics Do Not Contribute; Cynics Do Not Create.
Achievement
Doubters
Achieve
Wherever We Look, The Work Of The Chemist Has Raised The Level Of Our Civilization And Has Increased The Productive Capacity Of The Nation.
Civilization
Looks
Levels
The People Cannot Look To Legislation Generally For Success. Industry, Thrift, Character, Are Not Conferred By Act Or Resolve. Government Cannot Relieve From Toil. It Can Provide No Substitute For The Rewards Of Service. It Can, Of Course, Care For The Defective And Recognize Distinguished Merit. The Normal Must Care For Themselves. Self-government Means Self-support.
Character
Mean
Government
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.
Race
Government
America
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.
Office
Political
Important
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.
Party
Views
Two
Liberty Is Not Collective, It Is Personal. All Liberty Is Individual Liberty.
Liberty
Libertarian
Individualism
I Sometimes Wish That People Would Put A Little More Emphasis Upon The Observance Of The Law Than They Do Upon Its Enforcement.
Funny
Inspiration
Humor
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.
Country
Real
Mean
One Of The Greatest Perils To An Extensive Republic Is The Disregard Of Individual Rights.
Rights
Republic
Individual
Character Is The Only Secure Foundation Of The State.
Character
Foundation
States
It Is Difficult For Men In High Office To Avoid The Malady Of Self-delusion. They Are Always Surrounded By Worshipers. They Are Constantly, And For The Most Part Sincerely, Assured Of Their Greatness.
Greatness
Men
Self
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.
Love
People
Navy
Teaching Is One Of The Noblest Of Professions. It Requires An Adequate Preparation And Training, Patience, Devotion, And A Deep Sense Of Responsibility. Those Who Mold The Human Mind Have Wrought Not For Time, But For Eternity.
Teaching
Responsibility
Preparation
Inflation Is Repudiation.
Economy
Inflation
Perhaps One Of The Most Important Accomplishments Of My Administration Has Been Minding My Own Business.
Accomplishment
Presidential
Political
Everyone Has An Influence On Public Affairs If He Will Take The Trouble To Exert It.
Influence
Trouble
Affair
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.
Boston
Safety
Police
The World Is Full Of Educated Derelicts.
Perseverance
Determination
Persistence
One Of The First Lessons A President Has To Learn Is That Every Word He Says Weighs A Ton.
President
Lessons
Firsts
No Matter What Anyone May Say About Making The Rich And The Corporations Pay Taxes, In The End They Come Out Of The People Who Toil
People
President
Toil
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.
Religious
Law
America
All Growth Depends Upon Activity. There Is No Development Physically Or Intellectually Without Effort, And Effort Means Work.
Work
Mean
Effort
I Did Not See The Sense In Chasing A Little White Ball Around A Field.
Golf
White
Balls
If We Judge Ourselves Only By Our Aspirations And Everyone Else Only Their Conduct We Shall Soon Reach A Very False Conclusion.
Inspirational
Judging
Criticism
It Is Much More Important To Kill Bad Bills Than To Pass Good Ones.
Government
Libertarian Party
Important
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.
Patriotic
Men
Rights
Eat It Up, Make It Do, Wear It Out.
Frugality
A Display Of Reason Rather Than A Threat Of Force Should Be The Determining Factor In The Intercourse Among Nations.
Reason
Should
Force
Politics Is Not An End, But A Means. It Is Not A Product, But A Process. It Is The Art Of Government. Like Other Values It Has Its Counterfeits. So Much Emphasis Has Been Placed Upon The False That The Significance Of The True Has Been Obscured And Politics Has Come To Convey The Meaning Of Crafty And Cunning Selfishness, Instead Of Candid And Sincere Service.
Art
Mean
Government
You Can't Increase Prosperity By Taxing Success.
Prosperity
Increase
Wherever Despotism Abounds, The Sources Of Public Information Are The First To Be Brought Under Its Control.
Information
Firsts
Source
Collecting More Taxes Than Is Absolutely Necessary Is Legalized Robbery.
Presidential
Liberty
Taxation
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.
Educational
Names
Humanity
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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