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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
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Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
-Calvin Coolidge
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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.
-Calvin Coolidge
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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.
-Calvin Coolidge
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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
-Calvin Coolidge
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Do the days 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 dont be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but dont be a demagogue. Dont hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Dont hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Dont expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Dont hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.
-Calvin Coolidge
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When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
-Calvin Coolidge
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There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
-Calvin Coolidge
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business.
-Calvin Coolidge
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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.
-Calvin Coolidge
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It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Nothing in the 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 are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
-Calvin Coolidge
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If there has been any crime, it must be prosecuted. If there has been any property of the United States illegally transferred or leased, it must be recovered. I propose to employ special counsel of high rank drawn from both political parties to bring such actions for the enforcement of the law. Counsel will be instructed to prosecute these cases in the courts so that if there is any guilt it will be punished; if there is any civil liability it will be enforced; if there is any fraud it will be revealed; and if there are any contracts which are illegal they will be canceled. Every law will be enforced. And every right of the people and the Government will be protected.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Advertising
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As we turn through the pages of the press and the periodicals, as we catch the flash of billboards along the railroads and the highways, all of which have become enormous vehicles of the advertising art, I doubt if we realize at all the impressive part that these displays are coming more and more to play in modern life...
We see that basically it is that of education...It makes new thoughts, new desires, new actions...Rightfully applied, it is the method by which desire is created for better things. Desire, in turn, is the crucial element separating the civilized from the uncivilized. The uncivilized make little progress because they have few desires. The inhabitants of our country are stimulated to new wants in all directions. In order to satisfy their constantly increasing desires, they necessarily expand their productive powers. They create more wealth because it is only by that method that they can satisfy their wants. It is this constantly enlarging circle that represents the increasing circle of civilization.
-Calvin Coolidge, quoted in Frank Presbrey, The History and Development of Advertising (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1961)
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America
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The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Belief
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Conversation
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Criticism
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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.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Duty
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Education
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Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
-Calvin Coolidge
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Growth
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Heroes/Heroism
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Honor
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Idealism
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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