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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

Calvin Coolidge

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
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
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
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Character Civilization Government
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
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
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
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
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
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal

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