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

Calvin Coolidge

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Politics Yourself
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Democracy Faith Greatness Hope Humanity Religious
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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
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 can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Himself Learning Lesson Oneself Word
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
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
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
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Easy Government Money
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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
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 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

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