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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Calvin Coolidge

We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Character Civilization Government
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Determination Force Reason
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 collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
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
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
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
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness 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
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

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