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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.

Calvin Coolidge

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
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
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
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
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Old People Practice Relation
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
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong

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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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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