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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.

Calvin Coolidge

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Giving Help Himself
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Achievement Doubt
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
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
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Direction Hard Work Knowledge Maturity Simplicity Wisdom
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Government Liberty Necessary Order
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Funny Humor Law Myself People
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.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Danger Direction Economic Failure

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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