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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Change Ideal Understand
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Democracy Faith Greatness Hope Humanity Religious
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
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
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
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

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