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

Calvin Coolidge

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
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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
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
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Government Liberty Necessary People Protection
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Easy Government Money
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
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

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