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" If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. "

Calvin Coolidge

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" No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. "

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Honor

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Calvin Coolidge

America

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" If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. "

" Civilization and profit go hand in hand. "

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Civilization

Profit

" To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. "

" We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. "

" The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct. "

" Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House. "

" Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. "

" You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. "

" Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. "

" I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. "

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Wish

" I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. "

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Never

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" Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you. "

" Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. "

" 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. "

" Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. "

" Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. "

" Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. "

" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts 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. "

" Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. "