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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!

— Calvin Coolidge

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There is no substitute for a militant freedom. The only alternative is submission and slavery.

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

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Address at Holy Cross (1919)

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Letter to John Coolidge (1910)

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Save censure — critics are ready-made.

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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

Aldous Huxley Point Counter Point (1928)

Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.

George Chapman The Gentleman Usher (1606)

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