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We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege; but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.

Calvin Coolidge
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Calvin Coolidge's Popular Quotes

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

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Silence can never be misquoted.

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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

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Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

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