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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

Calvin Coolidge

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
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
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
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
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
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
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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
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
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
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

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