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

Calvin Coolidge

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
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
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
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
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Easy Government Money
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
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
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

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