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

Calvin Coolidge

America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
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
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Believe Equality Government Justice Ourselves Religion Right Truth
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
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

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