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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Calvin Coolidge

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Democracy Faith Greatness Hope Humanity Religious
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
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 are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
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
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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Forever Freedom Law Religious
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal

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