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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

Calvin Coolidge

What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
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
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
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
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
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
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
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose

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