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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
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
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
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
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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Difficult Greatness Men
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
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
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics

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