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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Charity Honor Ideal Peace
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
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
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 justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
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
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
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Country Government Opportunity
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment

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