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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
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
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality
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
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
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
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble

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