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

Calvin Coolidge

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Determination Force Reason
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
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
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation
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
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
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
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Government Liberty Necessary People Protection
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right

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