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

Calvin Coolidge

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
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
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
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 most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
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 final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Charity Honor Ideal Peace
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
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Government Liberty Necessary People Protection
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
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

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