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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.

-Calvin Coolidge

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The Suggestion Of Denying

Calvin Coolidge

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

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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.

Eat It Up, Make It Do, Wear It Out.

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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.

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

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

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

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Education Should Be The Handmaid Of Citizenship.

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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.

It Is Hard To See How A Great Man Can Be An Atheist. Without The Sustaining Influence Of Faith In A Divine Power We Could Have Little Faith In Ourselves. We Need To Feel That Behind Us Is Intelligence And Love. Doubters Do Not Achieve; Skeptics Do Not Contribute; Cynics Do Not Create. 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.

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.

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Men Do Not Make Laws. They Do But Discover Them.

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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.

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Anytime You Don't Want Anything You Get It.

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All Growth Depends Upon Activity.

The Nation Which Forgets Its Defenders Will Be Itself Forgotten.

I Have Noticed That Nothing I Never Said Ever Did Me Any Harm.

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.

That Man Has Offered Me Unsolicited Advice For Six Years, Most Of It Bad.

A Display Of Reason Rather Than A Threat Of Force Should Be The Determining Factor In The Intercourse Among Nations.

One Of The Greatest Perils To An Extensive Republic Is The Disregard Of Individual Rights.

Few People Are Lacking In Capacity, But They Fail Because They Are Lacking In Application.

Character Is The Only Secure Foundation Of The State.

When People Are Bewildered They Tend To Become Credulous.

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.

In A Republic The First Rule For The Guidance Of The Citizen Is Obedience Of The Law.

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.

Nordics Deteriorate When Mixed With Other Races.

We Do Not Need More Knowledge, We Need More Character!

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

There Are Racial Considerations Too Grave To Be Brushed Aside For Any Sentimental Reasons. Biological Laws Tell Us That Certain Divergent People Will Not Mix Or Blend. The Nordics Propagate Themselves Successfully. With Other Races, The Outcome Shows Deterioration On Both Sides. Quality Of Mind And Body Suggests That Observance Of Ethnic Law Is As Great A Necessity To A Nation As Immigration Law.

The Foundations Of Our Society And Our Government Rest So Much On The Teachings Of The Bible That It Would Be Difficult To Support Them If Faith In These Teachings Would Cease To Be Practically Universal In Our Country.

What Men Owe To The Love And Help Of Good Women Can Never Be Told.

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.

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

America... Cherishes No Purpose Save To Merit The Favor Of Almighty God.

The Country Is Not In Good Condition.

Great Depression

When More And More People Are Thrown Out Of Work, Unemployment Results.

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.

There Are Always Those Who Are Willing To Surrender Local Self-government And Turn Over Their Affairs To Some National Authority In Exchange For A Payment Of Money Out Of The Federal Treasury. Whenever They Find Some Abuse Needs Correction In Their Neighborhood, Instead Of Applying The Remedy Themselves They Seek To Have A Tribunal Sent On From Washington To Discharge Their Duties For Them, Regardless Of The Fact That In Accepting Such Supervision They Are Bartering Away Their Freedom.

It Is Characteristic Of The Unlearned That They Are Forever Proposing Something Which Is Old, And Because It Has Recently Come To Their Own Attention, Supposing It To Be New.

Look Well To The Hearthstone; Therein All Hope For America Lies.

These Things Do Not Happen By Chance. There Is Much Less Luck In Public Affairs Than Some Suppose.

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

The Things I Never Say Never Get Me Into Trouble.

Never Say Never

I Did Not See The Sense In Chasing A Little White Ball Around A Field.

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.

Whenever I Indulge My Sense Of Humor, It Gets Me Into Trouble.

The Business Of America Is Business.

It Takes A Great Man To Be A Good Listener.

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