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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Calvin Coolidge

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

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