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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Calvin Coolidge

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
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 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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
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
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
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
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Believe Equality Government Justice Ourselves Religion Right Truth
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
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
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
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
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Character Civilization Government
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman

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