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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

Calvin Coolidge

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree
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
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
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
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
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order

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