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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
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
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
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
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
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
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
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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
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 cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time

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