“We thought we were made for each other. For almost a quarter of a century she has borne with my infirmities, and I have rejoiced in her graces.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“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.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate had but one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“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…. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there is a holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it…. If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn’t come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“There is no reason for any suggestion that Mr. Hughes would resign, nor is there any reason for the suggestion that Mr. Mellon would resign, if either of them did not get exactly what they wanted from Congress; and I am not going to resign because I don’t get what I want.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“Mr. Bok is giving the bird sanctuary as a tract of land at this place. He is dedicating it as a bird sanctuary and putting up these bells to interest the birds in music.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“One with the law is a majority.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“After all, the chief business of the American people is business.”
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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“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.”
Calvin Coolidge
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“When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.”
Calvin Coolidge
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Work
