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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.

Calvin Coolidge

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
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
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 nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
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
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
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
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
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

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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