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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Calvin Coolidge

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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 right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
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
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Politics Yourself
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
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right

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