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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.

Calvin Coolidge

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
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
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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
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
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
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
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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
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

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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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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