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

Calvin Coolidge

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
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 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
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
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
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
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
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
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
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
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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Forever Freedom Law Religious
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
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
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
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

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