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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

Calvin Coolidge

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Government People Rule
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
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Direction Hard Work Knowledge Maturity Simplicity Wisdom
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
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
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
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
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
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Old People Practice Relation
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
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
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
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
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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 we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law

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