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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.

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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
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
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
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
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
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Country Government Opportunity
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
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
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
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Believe Equality Government Justice Ourselves Religion Right Truth

Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.

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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.

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