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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Calvin Coolidge

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
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
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
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
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision

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