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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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Hysteria will not help us to solve the problem that confronts us.
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There are strident voices, urging resistance to law in the name of freedom. They are not seeking freedom for themselves, they have it. They are seeking to enslave others. Their works are evil. They know it. They must be resisted. The evil they represent must be overcome by the good others represent. Their ideas, which are wrong, for the most part imported, must be supplanted by ideas which are right. This can be done. The meaning of America is a power which cannot be overcome.
—Calvin Coolidge
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Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America.
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Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit out not to settle in America.
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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.
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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.
—Calvin Coolidge
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Our conceptions of liberty under the law are not narrow and cramped, but broad and tolerant.
—Calvin Coolidge
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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.
—Calvin Coolidge
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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.
—Calvin Coolidge
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it
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I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.
—Calvin Coolidge, Inaugural Address, 1924