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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

Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation
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
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
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
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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
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
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
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty

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