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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.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
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
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
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
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
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
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
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.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Country Government Opportunity

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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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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