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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Calvin Coolidge

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Believe Equality Government Justice Ourselves Religion Right Truth
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
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Charity Honor Ideal Peace
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
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
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
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
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning

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