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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
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
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
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
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
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
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
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People

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