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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Calvin Coolidge

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
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
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Democracy Faith Greatness Hope Humanity Religious
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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
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
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
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
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule

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