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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 4, 1924

I can only express my simple thanks to all those who have contributed to this result and plainly acknowledge that it has been brought to pass through the work of a Divine Providence, of which I am but one instrument.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 4, 1924

It does not seem possible to me to make an adequate expression concerning the Presidency of the United States.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 3, 1924

A part of that success is due to you gentlemen who are here in the room and have done more to interpret me and my policies to the country than I could do myself.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 2, 1924

The immediate and pressing obligation for tomorrow is that each one of us who is qualified shall vote.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 2, 1924

America, more thoroughly than any other country, has adopted a system of self government.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 2, 1924

No decision that the people have made in any great crisis has ever shown that faith in them has been misplaced.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 2, 1924

The only way to be free is to exercise actively and energetically the privileges, and discharge faithfully the duties which make freedom.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Oct 25, 1924

The Jewish people have always and everywhere been particularly devoted to the ideal of taking care of their own.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Oct 25, 1924

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

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