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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
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
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
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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Difficult Greatness Men
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Politics Yourself
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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics

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