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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
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 have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
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
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
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
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need

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