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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Calvin Coolidge

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
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 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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
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
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
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
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
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Government Liberty Necessary People Protection

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

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