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A Wholesome Regard For The Memory Of The Great Men Of Long Ago Is The Best Assurance To A People Of A Continuation Of Great Men To Come, Who Shall Be Able To Instruct, To Lead, And To Inspire. A People Who Worship At The Shrine Of True Greatness Will Themselves Be Truly Great.

-Calvin Coolidge

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A Wholesome Regard For The Memory Of The Great Men Of Long Ago Is The Best Assurance To A People Of A Continuation Of Great Men To Come, Who Shall Be Able To Instruct, To Lead, And To Inspire. A People Who Worship At The Shrine Of True Greatness Will Themselves Be Truly Great.

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Well, Farmers Never Have Made Money. I Don't Believe We Can Do Much About It. But Of Course We Will Have To Seem To Be Doing Something; Do The Best We Can And Without Much Hope. The Life Of The Farmer Has Its Compensations But It Has Always Been One Of Hardship.

Our Country Represents Nothing But Peaceful Intentions Toward All The Earth, But It Ought Not To Fail To Maintain Such A Military Force As Comports With The Dignity And Security Of A Great People.

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We Identify The Flag With Almost Everything We Hold Dear On Earth, Peace, Security, Liberty, Our Family, Our Friends, Our Home. . .but When We Look At Our Flag And Behold It Emblazoned With All Our Rights We Must Remember That It Is Equally A Symbol Of Our Duties. Every Glory That We Associate With It Is The Result Of Duty Done.

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We Need Not Concern Ourselves Much About Rights Of Property If We Faithfully Observe The Rights Of Persons.

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Man Everywhere Has An Unconquerable Desire To Be The Master Of His Own Destiny.

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We Do Not Need More Knowledge, We Need More Character!

Politics Is Not An End, But A Means. It Is Not A Product, But A Process. It Is The Art Of Government. Like Other Values It Has Its Counterfeits. So Much Emphasis Has Been Placed Upon The False That The Significance Of The True Has Been Obscured And Politics Has Come To Convey The Meaning Of Crafty And Cunning Selfishness, Instead Of Candid And Sincere Service.

Any Reward That Is Worth Having Only Comes To The Industrious. The Success Which Is Made In Any Walk Of Life Is Measured Almost Exactly By The Amount Of Hard Work That Is Put Into It.

Advertising Ministers To The Spiritual Side Of Trade. It Is Great Power That Has Been Entrusted To Your Keeping Which Charges You With The High Responsibility Of Inspiring And Ennobling The Commercial World. It Is All Part Of The Greater Work Of The Regeneration And Redemption Of Mankind.

The Doctrine Of The Declaration Of Independence Predicated Upon The Glory Of Man And The Corresponding Duty To Society That The Rights Of Citizens Ought To Be Protected With Every Power And Resource Of The State, And A Government That Does Any Less Is False To The Teachings Of That Great Document - False To The Name American.

We Cannot Weaken Or Destroy Political Parties In Ther United States Without Weakening Or Destroying The Rule Of The People.... Those Who Support Party Organization And Submit To Party Discipline Are Supporting The Only Course Yet Discovered For Orderly Government By The People.

Under Our Institutions The Only Way To Perfect The Government Is To Perfect The Individual Citizen. It Is Necessary To Reach The Mind And Soul Of The Individual. I Know Of No Way That This Can Be Done Save Through The Influence Of Religion And Education. By Religion I Do Not Mean Fanaticism Or Bigotry; By Education I Do Not Mean The Cant Of The Schools, But A Broad And Tolerant Faith, Loving Thy Neighbor As Thyself, And A Training And Experience That Enables The Human Mind To See Into The Heart Of Things.

I Did Not See The Sense In Chasing A Little White Ball Around A Field.

While Legislation Can Stimulate And Encourage, The Real Creative Ability Which Builds Up And Develops The Country, And In General Makes Human Existence More Tolerable And Life More Complete, Has To Be Supplied By The Genius Of The People Themselves. The Government Can Supply No Substitute For Enterprise.

Because Of What America Is And What America Has Done, A Firmer Courage, A Higher Hope, Inspires The Heart Of All Humanity.

There Is Only One Form Of Political Strategy In Which I Have Any Confidence, And That Is To Try To Do The Right Thing And Sometimes Be Able To Succeed.

Industry, Thrift And Self-control Are Not Sought Because They Create Wealth, But Because They Create Character.

[sun Yat-sen Is A] Combined Benjamin Franklin And George Washington Of China.

Industry Cannot Flourish If Labor Languish.

What Men Owe To The Love And Help Of Good Women Can Never Be Told.

Christmas Is Not A Time Nor A Season, But A State Of Mind. To Cherish Peace And Goodwill, To Be Plenteous In Mercy, Is To Have The Real Spirit Of Christmas.

There Is No Surer Road To Destruction Than Prosperity Without Character.

Everyone Has An Influence On Public Affairs If He Will Take The Trouble To Exert It.

The World Is Full Of Educated Derelicts.

Doubters Do Not Achieve; Skeptics Do Not Contribute; Cynics Do Not Create.

The Slogan 'press On' Has Solved And Always Will Solve The Problems Of The Human Race.

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.

Advertising Is The Most Potent Influence In Adapting And Changing The Habits And Modes Of Life Affecting What We Eat, What We Wear, And The Work And Play Of A Whole Nation.

To Live Under The American Constitution Is The Greatest Political Privilege That Was Ever Accorded To The Human Race.

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.

The Fundamental Precept Of Liberty Is Toleration.

The Benefit Of One Is The Benefit Of All, And The Neglect Of One Is The Neglect Of All.

General Welfare

Coincident With The Right Of Individual Property Under The Provisions Of Our Government Is The Right Of Individual Property. . . . When Once The Right Of The Individual To Liberty And Equality Is Admitted, There Is No Escape From The Conclusion That He Alone Is Entitled To The Rewards Of His Own Industry. Any Other Conclusion Would Necessarily Imply Either Privilege Or Servitude.

The Measure Discriminates Definitely Against Products Which Make Up What Has Been Universally Considered A Program Of Safe Farming. The Bill Upholds As Ideals Of American Farming The Men Who Grow Cotton, Corn, Rice, Swine, Tobacco, Or Wheat And Nothing Else. These Are To Be Given Special Favors At The Expense Of The Farmer Who Has Toiled For Years To Build Up A Constructive Farming Enterprise To Include A Variety Of Crops And Livestock.

The Strength Of A Country Is The Strength Of Its Religious Convictions.

I Have Never Been Hurt By What I Have Not Said.

Whenever Nature's Bounty Is In Danger Of Exhaustion, The Chemist Has Sought For A Substitute. The Conquest Of Disease Has Made Great Progress As A Result Of Your Efforts. Wherever We Look, The Work Of The Chemist Has Raised The Level Of Our Civilization And Has Increased The Productive Capacity Of The Nation. Waste Materials, Formerly Cast Aside, Are Now Being Utilized.

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.

The Words Of The President Have An Enormous Weight And Ought Not To Be Used Indiscriminately.

You Can Display No Greater Wisdom Than By Resisting Proposals For Needless Legislation. It Is Much More Important To Kill Bad Bills Than To Pass Good Ones.

Why Don't We Just Buy One Airplane And Let The Pilots Take Turns Flying It.

Duty Is Not Collective; It Is Personal.

When People Are Bewildered They Tend To Become Credulous.

We Insist On Producing A Farm Surplus, But Think The Government Should Find A Profitable Market For It. We Overindulge In Speculation, But Ask The Government To Prevent Panics. Now The Only Way To Hold The Government Entirely Responsible For Conditions Is To Give Up Our Liberty For A Dictatorship. If We Continue The More Reasonable Practice Of Managing Our Own Affairs We Must Bear The Burdens Of Our Own Mistakes. A Free People Cannot Shift Their Responsibility For Them To The Government. Self-government Means Self-reliance.

The Man Who Builds A Factory, Builds A Temple.

Persistence And Determination Alone Are Omnipotent.

If The Government Gets Into Business On Any Large Scale, We Soon Find That The Beneficiaries Attempt To Play A Large Part In The Control. While In Theory It Is To Serve The Public, In Practice It Will Be Very Largely Serving Private Interests. It Comes To Be Regarded As A Species Of Government Favor And Those Who Are The Most Adroit Get The Larger Part Of It.

Money Will Not Purchase Character Or Good Government.

You Can't Know Too Much, But You Can Say Too Much.

Works Which Endure Come From The Soul Of The People. The Mighty In Their Pride Walk Alone To Destruction. The Humble Walk Hand In Hand With Providence To Immortality. Their Works Survive.

You Don't Have To Explain Something You Never Said.

Changing A College Curriculum Is Like Moving A Graveyard-you Never Know How Many Friends The Dead Have Until You Try To Move Them!

Honorable Senators: My Sincerest Thanks I Offer You. Conserve The Firm Foundations Of Our Institutions. Do Your Work With The Spirit Of A Soldier In The Public Service. Be Loyal To The Commonwealth And To Yourselves And Be Brief; Above All Be Brief.

There Are Always Those Who Are Willing To Surrender Local Self-government And Turn Over Their Affairs To Some National Authority In Exchange For A Payment Of Money Out Of The Federal Treasury. Whenever They Find Some Abuse Needs Correction In Their Neighborhood, Instead Of Applying The Remedy Themselves They Seek To Have A Tribunal Sent On From Washington To Discharge Their Duties For Them, Regardless Of The Fact That In Accepting Such Supervision They Are Bartering Away Their Freedom.

We Do Not Need More Intellectual Power, We Need More Spiritual Power. We Do Not Need More Of The Things That Are Seen, We Need More Of The Things That Are Unseen.

In A Republic The First Rule For The Guidance Of The Citizen Is Obedience Of The Law.

We Cannot Do Everything At Once, But We Can Do Something At Once.

While I Do Not Think It Was So Intended I Have Always Been Of The Opinion That This Turned Out To Be Much The Best For Me. I Had No National Experience. What I Have Ever Been Able To Do Has Been The Result Of First Learning How To Do It. I Am Not Gifted With Intuition. I Need Not Only Hard Work But Experience To Be Ready To Solve Problems. The Presidents Who Have Gone To Washington Without First Having Held Some National Office Have Been At Great Disadvantage.

The Final Solution For Unemployment Is Work.

Nothing In This World Can Take The Place Of Persistence. Talent Will Not: Nothing Is More Common Than Unsuccessful Men With Talent.

Despotism Has Forever Had A Powerful Hold Upon The World. Autocratic Government, Not Self-government, Has Been The Prevailing State Of Mankind. The Record Of Past History Is The Record, Not Of The Success Of Republics, But Of Their Failure.

If We Expect Others To Rely On Our Fairness And Justice We Must Show That We Rely On Their Fairness And Justice.

Government Price-fixing Once Started, Has Alike No Justice And No End. It Is An Economic Folly From Which This Country Has Every Right To Be Spared.

It Has Not Been My Fortune To Know Very Much Of Freemasonry, But I Have Had The Great Fortune To Know Many Freemasons And Have Been Able In That Way To Judge The Tree By Its Fruit. I Know Of Your High Ideals. I Have Seen That You Hold Your Meetings In The Presence Of The Open Bible, And I Know That Men Who Observe That Formality Have High Sentiments Of Citizenship, Of Worth, And Character. That Is The Strength Of Our Commonwealth And Nation.

The Centralization Of Power In Washington, Which Nearly All Members Of Congress Deplore In Their Speech And Then Support By Their Votes, Steadily Increases.

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.

Governments Do Not Make Ideals, But Ideals Make Governments. This Is Both Historically And Logically True. Of Course The Government Can Help To Sustain Ideals And Can Create Institutions Through Which They Can Be The Better Observed, But Their Source By Their Very Nature Is In The People. The People Have To Bear Their Own Responsibilities. There Is No Method By Which That Burden Can Be Shifted To The Government. It Is Not The Enactment, But The Observance Of Laws, That Creates The Character Of A Nation.

If A Painting Of A Tree Was Only The Exact Representation Of The Original, So That It Looked Just Like The Tree, There Would Be No Reason For Making It; We Might As Well Look At The Tree Itself. But The Painting, If It Is Of The Right Sort, Gives Something That Neither A Photograph Nor A View Of The Tree Conveys. It Emphasizes Something Of Character, Quality, Individuality. We Are Not Lost In Looking At Thorns And Defects; We Catch A Vision Of The Grandeur And Beauty Of A King Of The Forest.

All Growth Depends Upon Activity.

Men Do Not Make Laws. They Do But Discover Them.

Freedom Is Not Only Bought With A Great Price; It Is Maintained By Unremitting Effort.

One Of The First Lessons A President Has To Learn Is That Every Word He Says Weighs A Ton.

You Can't Increase Prosperity By Taxing Success.

Unless We Lay Our Course In Accordance With This Principle, The Great Power For Good In The World With Which We Have Been Intrusted By A Divine Providence Will Be Turned To A Power For Evil.

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