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One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

Calvin Coolidge

You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
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
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Citizenship Failure Government People
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
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
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Himself Learning Lesson Oneself Word
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present

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