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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Old People Practice Relation
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
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
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
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
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
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
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
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Himself Learning Lesson Oneself Word
If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Citizenship Failure Government People
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work

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