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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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Act Powerful Togetherness
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
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
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Happiness Positive Run Thinking Yourself
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Funny Humor Law Myself People
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work

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