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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
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
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
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
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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Act Powerful Togetherness
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
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
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
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution

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