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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Direction Hard Work Knowledge Maturity Simplicity Wisdom
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
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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Act Powerful Togetherness
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
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need

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