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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

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
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
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
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
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
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Determination Force Reason
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
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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Democracy Faith Greatness Hope Humanity Religious
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money

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