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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.

Calvin Coolidge

You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
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
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
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
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 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
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
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
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics

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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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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