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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
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
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
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
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
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
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal

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