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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

Calvin Coolidge

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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
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
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
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
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
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
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
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
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
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 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 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
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
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule
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
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
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity

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