Calvin Coolidge

30th U.S. President

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Serious and quiet, interested in security and peaceful living. Extremely thorough, responsible, and dependable. Well-developed powers of concentration. Usually interested in supporting and promoting traditions and establishments. Well-organized and hard working, they work steadily towards identified goals. They can usually accomplish any task once they have set their mind to it.

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John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state.

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Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

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

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

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

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.

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.

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

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

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.

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