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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

Calvin Coolidge

Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Easy Government Money
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
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
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
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
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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Country Government Opportunity
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man

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