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Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

Calvin Coolidge

The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

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