"Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine.""
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Calvin Coolidge quotes (page 15 of 17)
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"Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation."
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"Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble."
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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 hadbut 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."
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"A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else."
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"War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law."
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"Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?"
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"We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!"
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"The only hope of a short war is to prepare for a long one."
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"Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality. Their works survive."
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"The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is my duty to enforce such laws.To prevent smuggling, the Coast Card should be greatly strengthened, and a supply of swift power boats should be provided. The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic... It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation."
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"I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet."
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"Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization."
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"Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service."
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"Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity."
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"I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind."
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"Look well to the hearthstone; therein all hope for America lies."
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"I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them."
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"It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man."
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"I do not choose to run for President in 1928."
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