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We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

Calvin Coolidge

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
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Funny Humor Law Myself People
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
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Politics Yourself
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
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
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
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

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