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The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
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
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
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
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
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty

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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