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Nations Are Beginning To Look To Some Vague Organization, Some Nebulous Course Of Humanity, To Pay Their Bills And Tell Them What To Do. This Is Not Local Self-government. It Is Not American. It Is Not The Method Which Has Made This Country What It Is. We Can Not Maintain The Western Standard Of Civilization On That Theory. If It Is Supported At All, It Will Have To Be Supported On The Principle Of Individual Responsibility.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Nations Are Beginning To

Calvin Coolidge
Nations Are Beginning To Look To Some Vague Organization, Some Nebulous Course Of Humanity, To Pay Their Bills And Tell Them What To Do. This Is Not Local Self-government. It Is Not American. It Is Not The Method Which Has Made This Country What It Is. We Can Not Maintain The Western Standard Of Civilization On That Theory. If It Is Supported At All, It Will Have To Be Supported On The Principle Of Individual Responsibility.
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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.
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History Reveals No Civilized People Among Whom There Was Not A Highly Educated Class And Large Aggregations Of Wealth. Large Profits Mean Large Payrolls.
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Relationship
Wisdom
There Is No Force So Democratic As The Force Of An Ideal.
Patriotic
Force
Idealism
We Insist On Producing A Farm Surplus, But Think The Government Should Find A Profitable Market For It. We Overindulge In Speculation, But Ask The Government To Prevent Panics. Now The Only Way To Hold The Government Entirely Responsible For Conditions Is To Give Up Our Liberty For A Dictatorship. If We Continue The More Reasonable Practice Of Managing Our Own Affairs We Must Bear The Burdens Of Our Own Mistakes. A Free People Cannot Shift Their Responsibility For Them To The Government. Self-government Means Self-reliance.
Giving Up
Mistake
Responsibility
One Of The First Lessons A President Has To Learn Is That Every Word He Says Weighs A Ton.
President
Lessons
Firsts
Business Will Be Either Better Or Worse.
Business
The Most Common Commodity In This Country Is Unrealized Potential.
Country
Vision
Common
What Men Owe To The Love And Help Of Good Women Can Never Be Told.
Men
Good Woman
Helping
There Is No Escaping The Fact That When The Taxation Of Large Incomes Is Excessive, They Tend To Disappear.
Escaping
Income
Taxation
When A Great Many People Are Unable To Find Work, Unemployment Results.
Work
People
Unemployment
Nothing In This World Can Take The Place Of Persistence. Talent Will Not: Nothing Is More Common Than Unsuccessful Men With Talent.
Perseverance
Determination
Persistence
If All Men Are Created Equal, That Is Final. If They Are Endowed With Inalienable Rights, That Is Final. If Governments Derive Their Just Powers From The Consent Of The Governed, That Is Final. No Advance, No Progress Can Be Made Beyond These Propositions.
Men
Rights
Progress
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
You Have To Stand Every Day Three Or Four Hours Of Visitors. Nine-tenths Of Them Want Something They Ought Not To Have. If You Keep Dead-still They Will Run Down In Three Or Four Minutes. If You Even Cough Or Smile They Will Start Up All Over Again.
Running
Want Something
Three
I Should Think That An Ordinary Copy Of The King James Version Would Have Been Good Enough For Those Congressmen.
Bible
Kings
Book
What We Need Is Not More Federal Government, But Better Local Government.
Government
Needs
Locals
Money Will Not Purchase Character Or Good Government.
Character
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.
Spiritual
Character
Government
Character Is The Only Secure Foundation Of The State.
Character
Foundation
States
Four-fifths Of All Our Troubles Would Disappear, If We Would Only Sit Down And Keep Still.
Presidential
Political
Four
The Things I Never Say Never Get Me Into Trouble.
Trouble
Never Say Never
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
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.
Peace
War
Army
Industry, Thrift And Self-control Are Not Sought Because They Create Wealth, But Because They Create Character.
Character
Self
Wealth
It Is Difficult For Men In High Office To Avoid The Malady Of Self-delusion
Men
Self
Office
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.
Inspirational Life
Healing
America
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
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
If A Painting Of A Tree Was Only The Exact Representation Of The Original, So That It Looked Just Like The Tree, There Would Be No Reason For Making It; We Might As Well Look At The Tree Itself. But The Painting, If It Is Of The Right Sort, Gives Something That Neither A Photograph Nor A View Of The Tree Conveys. It Emphasizes Something Of Character, Quality, Individuality. We Are Not Lost In Looking At Thorns And Defects; We Catch A Vision Of The Grandeur And Beauty Of A King Of The Forest.
Kings
Character
Views
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.
Christmas
Xmas
Real
I Have Never Been Hurt By What I Have Not Said.
Funny
Witty
Hurt
Our Country Represents Nothing But Peaceful Intentions Toward All The Earth, But It Ought Not To Fail To Maintain Such A Military Force As Comports With The Dignity And Security Of A Great People.
Country
Military
People
A Colored Man Is Precisely As Much Entitled To Submit His Candidacy In A Party Primary, As Is Any Other Citizen. The Decision Must Be Made By The Constituents To Whom He Offers Himself, And By Nobody Else.
Party
Men
Decision
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 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
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.
Simple
United States
Care
The Danger To America Is Not In The Direction Of The Failure To Maintain Its Economic Position, But In The Direction Of The Failure To Maintain Its Ideals.
America
Economic
Danger
The Fundamental Precept Of Liberty Is Toleration.
Liberty
Fundamentals
Toleration
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.
Taken
Party
Responsibility
Whenever I Indulge My Sense Of Humor, It Gets Me Into Trouble.
Sense Of Humor
Trouble
Indulge
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.
Ignorance
Rights
Law
Ultimately Property Rights And Personal Rights Are The Same Thing.
Rights
Politics
Conservative
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
I Want The People To Work Less For The Government And More For Themselves. I Want Them To Have The Rewards Of Their Own Industry.
Government
People
Want
No Matter What Anyone May Say About Making The Rich And The Corporations Pay The Taxes, In The End They Come Out Of The People Who Toil. It Is Your Fellow Workers Who Are Ordered To Work For The Government, Every Time An Appropriation Bill Is Passed. The People Pay The Expense Of Government, Often Many Times Over, In The Increased Cost Of Living. I Want Taxes To Be Less, That The People May Have More.
Cost Of Living
Government
People
The Property Of The People Belongs To The People. To Take It From Them By Taxation Cannot Be Justified Except By Urgent Public Necessity. Unless This Principle Be Recognized Our Country Is No Longer Secure, Our People No Longer Free.
Country
People
Principles
Nothing Is Easier Than Spending Public Money. It Does Not Appear To Belong To Anybody. The Temptation Is Overwhelming To Bestow It On Somebody.
Money
Carpe Diem
Government
I Appeal To Amherst Men To Reiterate The Amherst Doctrine That The Man Who Builds A Factory Builds A Temple, That The Man Who Works There Worships There, And To Each Is Due Not Scorn And Blame But Reverence And Praise.
Men
Temples
Blame
There Is No Right To Strike Against The Public Safety By Anybody, Anywhere, Any Time.
Time
Safety
Strikes
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
Numbered Among Our Population Are Some 12,000,000 Colored People. Under Our Constitution Their Rights Are Just As Sacred As Those Of Any Other Citizen. It Is Both A Public And A Private Duty To Protect Those Rights. The Congress Ought To Exercise All Its Powers Of Prevention And Punishment Against The Hideous Crime Of Lynching, Of Which The Negroes Are By No Means The Sole Sufferers, But For Which They Furnish A Majority Of The Victims.
Mean
Exercise
Rights
What We Need In Appointive Positions Is Men Of Knowledge And Experience Who Have Sufficient Character To Resist Temptations.
Character
Men
Temptation
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.
Country
Men
Law
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.
Strong
Powerful
Hard Work
The Budget Idea, I May Admit, Is A Sort Of Obsession With Me. I Believe In Budgets. I Want Other People To Believe In Them. I Have Had A Small One To Run My Own Home; And Besides That, I Am The Head Of The Organization That Makes The Greatest Of All Budgets, That Of The United States Government. Do You Wonder, Then, That At Times I Dream Of Balance Sheets And Sinking Funds?
Running
Dream
Believe
Perhaps One Of The Most Important Accomplishments Of My Administration Has Been Minding My Own Business.
Accomplishment
Presidential
Political
It Would Be Folly To Argue That The People Cannot Make Political Mistakes. They Can And Do Make Grave Mistakes. They Know It, They Pay The Penalty, But Compared With The Mistakes Which Have Been Made By Every Kind Of Autocracy They Are Unimportant.
Mistake
People
Political
The Right Thing To Do Never Requires Any Subterfuge, It Is Always Simple And Direct.
Simple
Accountability
Political
If There Is To Be Responsible Party Government, The Party Label Must Be Something More Than A Mere Device For Securing Office. Unless Those Who Are Elected Under The Same Party Designation Are Willing To Assume Sufficient Responsibility And Exhibit Sufficient Loyalty And Coherence, So That They Can Cooperate With Each Other In The Support Of The Broad General Principles, Of The Party Platform, The Election Is Merely A Mockery, No Decision Is Made At The Polls, And There Is No Representation Of The Popular Will.
Loyalty
Party
Responsibility
Mass Demand Has Been Created Almost Entirely Through The Development Of Advertising.
Development
Demand
Advertising
No One Ever Lost His Job By Listening Too Much.
Jobs
Listening
Too Much
Life Is One Darn Thing After Another.
Life Is
Advertising Ministers To The Spiritual Side Of Trade.
Spiritual
Business
Sides
We Are Too Solicitous For Government Intervention, On The Theory, First, That The People Themselves Are Helpless, And Second, That The Government Has Superior Capacity For Action. Often Times Both Of These Conclusions Are Wrong.
Government
People
Firsts
One Of The Greatest Perils To An Extensive Republic Is The Disregard Of Individual Rights.
Rights
Republic
Individual
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.
Hard Work
Rewards
Life Is
We Have Got So Many Regulatory Laws Already That In General I Feel That We Would Be Just As Well Off If We Didn't Have Any More.
Law
Would Be
Wells
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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