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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

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself

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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