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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Calvin Coolidge

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
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
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
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
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
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Government Liberty Necessary People Protection
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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Forever Freedom Law Religious
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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
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
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science

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