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

Calvin Coolidge

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
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
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Happiness Positive Run Thinking Yourself
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
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
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
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Democracy Faith Greatness Hope Humanity Religious
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
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
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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
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

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