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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

Calvin Coolidge

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
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
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
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
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
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

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