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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.

Calvin Coolidge

Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
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
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
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
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
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
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
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
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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