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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.

Calvin Coolidge

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
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
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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 most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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 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
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
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

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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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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