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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Calvin Coolidge

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Old People Practice Relation
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
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
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
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
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
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
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

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