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

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.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
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
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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
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
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
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
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
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

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