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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.

Calvin Coolidge

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
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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Act Powerful Togetherness
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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Direction Hard Work Knowledge Maturity Simplicity Wisdom
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
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
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
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
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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

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