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Money will not purchase character or good government.

Calvin Coolidge

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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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Charity Honor Ideal Peace
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
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
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
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
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
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
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule

Money will not purchase character or good government.

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