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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.

Calvin Coolidge

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
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
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Believe Equality Government Justice Ourselves Religion Right Truth
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
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
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

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