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You don’t have to explain something you never said.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
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
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose

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