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

Calvin Coolidge

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Citizenship Failure Government People
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Charity Honor Ideal Peace

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