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Faith Is The Great Motive Power, And No Man Realizes His Full Possibilities Unless He Has The Deep Conviction That Life Is Eternally Important And That His Work Well Done Is A Part Of An Unending Plan.

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Faith Is The Great

Calvin Coolidge

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Faith Is The Great Motive Power, And No Man Realizes His Full Possibilities Unless He Has The Deep Conviction That Life Is Eternally Important And That His Work Well Done Is A Part Of An Unending Plan.

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Whenever I Indulge My Sense Of Humor, It Gets Me Into Trouble.

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I Guess I Am Not Naturally Energetic. I Like To Sit Around And Talk.

Mass Demand Has Been Created Almost Entirely Through The Development Of Advertising.

Prosperity Cannot Be Divorced From Humanity.

A Colored Man Is Precisely As Much Entitled To Submit His Candidacy In A Party Primary, As Is Any Other Citizen. The Decision Must Be Made By The Constituents To Whom He Offers Himself, And By Nobody Else.

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It Is Very Difficult To Reconcile The American Ideal Of A Sovereign People Capable Of Owning And Managing Their Own Government With An Inability To Own And Manage Their Own Business.

The Fundamental Precept Of Liberty Is Toleration.

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.

If There Is To Be Responsible Party Government, The Party Label Must Be Something More Than A Mere Device For Securing Office. Unless Those Who Are Elected Under The Same Party Designation Are Willing To Assume Sufficient Responsibility And Exhibit Sufficient Loyalty And Coherence, So That They Can Cooperate With Each Other In The Support Of The Broad General Principles, Of The Party Platform, The Election Is Merely A Mockery, No Decision Is Made At The Polls, And There Is No Representation Of The Popular Will.

Unless The People, Through Unified Action, Arise And Take Charge Of Their Government, They Will Find That Their Government Has Taken Charge Of Them. Independence And Liberty Will Be Gone, And The General Public Will Find Itself In A Condition Of Servitude To An Aggregation Of Organized And Selfish Interest.

A Lost Article Invariably Shows Up After You Replace It.

The World Is Full Of Educated Derelicts.

I Have Noticed That Nothing I Never Said Ever Did Me Any Harm.

It Is Not Easy To Conceive Of Anything That Would Be More Unfortunate In A Community Based Upon The Ideals Of Which Americans Boast Than Any Considerable Development Of Intolerance As Regards Religion.

There Is No Justification For Public Interference With Purely Private Concerns.

It Is Hard To See How A Great Man Can Be An Atheist. Without The Sustaining Influence Of Faith In A Divine Power We Could Have Little Faith In Ourselves. We Need To Feel That Behind Us Is Intelligence And Love. Doubters Do Not Achieve; Skeptics Do Not Contribute; Cynics Do Not Create. Faith Is The Great Motive Power, And No Man Realizes His Full Possibilities Unless He Has The Deep Conviction That Life Is Eternally Important, And That His Work, Well Done, Is A Part Of An Unending Plan.

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We Have Found That When Men And Women Are Left Free To Find The Places For Which They Are Best Fitted, Some Few Of Them Will Indeed Attain Less Exalted Stations Than Under A Regime Of Privilege; But The Vast Multitude Will Rise To A Higher Level, To Wider Horizons, To Worthier Attainments.

There Is New Life In The Soil For Every Man. There Is Healing In The Trees For Tired Minds And For Our Overburdened Spirits, There Is Strength In The Hills, If Only We Will Lift Up Our Eyes. Remember That Nature Is Your Great Restorer.

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In The Discharge Of The Duties Of This Office, There Is One Rule Of Action More Important Than All Others. It Consists In Never Doing Anything That Someone Else Can Do For You.

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Do The Day's Work. If It Be To Protect The Rights Of The Weak, Whoever Objects, Do It. If It Be To Help A Powerful Corporation Better To Serve The People, Whatever The Opposition, Do That. Expect To Be Called A Stand-patter, But Don't Be A Stand-patter. Expect To Be Called A Demagogue, But Don't Be A Demagogue. Don't Hesitate To Be As Revolutionary As Science. Don't Hesitate To Be As Reactionary As The Multiplication Table. Don't Expect To Build Up The Weak By Pulling Down The Strong. Don't Hurry To Legislate. Give Administration A Chance To Catch Up With Legislation.

What America Needs Is To Hold To Its Ancient And Well-charted Course. Our Country Was Conceived In The Theory Of Local Self-government. It Has Been Dedicated By Long Practice To That Wise And Beneficent Policy. It Is The Foundation Principle Of Our System Of Liberty. It Makes The Largest Promise To The Freedom And Development Of The Individual. Its Preservation Is Worth All The Effort And All The Sacrifice That It May Cost.

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Wealth Comes From Industry And From The Hard Experience Of Human Toil. To Dissipate It In Waste And Extravagance Is Disloyalty To Humanity.

No Nation Ever Had An Army Large Enough To Guarantee It Against Attack In Time Of Peace, Or Ensure It Of Victory In Time Of War.

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That Man Has Offered Me Unsolicited Advice For Six Years, Most Of It Bad.

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There Is No Right To Strike Against The Public Safety By Anybody, Anywhere, Any Time.

We Have Too Much Legislating By Clamor, By Tumult, By Pressure. Representative Government Ceases When Outside Influence Of Any Kind Is Substituted For The Judgment Of The Representative.

What We Need Is Not More Federal Government, But Better Local Government.

There Is No Substitute For A Militant Freedom.

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Persistence And Determination Alone Are Omnipotent.

To Expect To Increase Prices And Then To Maintain Them At A Higher Level By Means Of A Plan Which Must Of Necessity Increase Production While Decreasing Consumption Is To Fly In The Face Of An Economic Law As Well Established As Any Law Of Nature.

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They [the Founding Fathers] Were Intent Upon Establishing A Christian Commonwealth In Accordance With The Principle Of Self-government. They Were An Inspired Body Of Men. It Has Been Said That God Sifted The Nations That He Might Send Choice Grain Into The Wilderness ... Who Can Fail To See It In The Hand Of Destiny? Who Can Doubt That It Has Been Guided By A Divine Providence?

It Is Accordance With Our Determination To Refrain From Aggression And Build Up A Sentiment And Practice Among Nations More Favorable To Peace, That We Ratified A Treaty For The Limitation Of Naval Armaments Made In 1921, Earnestly Sought For A Further Extension Of This Principle In 1927, And Have Secured The Consent Of Fourteen Important Nations To The Negotiation Of A Treaty Condemning Recourse To War, Renouncing It Is An Instrument Of National Policy, And Pledging Each Other To Seek No Solution Of Their Disagreements Except By Pacific Means.

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

It Has Become The Custom In Our Country To Expect All Chief Executives, From The President Down, To Conduct Activities Analogous To An Entertainment Bureau. No Occasion Is Too Trivial For Its Promoters To Invite Them To Attend And Deliver An Address.

I Shouldn't Want You To Be Surprised, Or To Draw Any Particular Inference From My Making Speeches, Or Not Making Speeches, Out There. I Don't Recall Any Candidate For President That Ever Injured Himself Very Much By Not Talking.

I Appeal To Amherst Men To Reiterate The Amherst Doctrine That The Man Who Builds A Factory Builds A Temple, That The Man Who Works There Worships There, And To Each Is Due Not Scorn And Blame But Reverence And Praise.

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.

Don't Hesitate To Be As Revolutionary As Science. Don't Hesitate To Be As Reactionary As The Multiplication Table.

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.

Nature Is Inexorable. If Men Do Not Follow The Truth They Cannot Live.

We Draw Our Presidents From The People. It Is A Wholesome Thing For Them To Return To The People. I Came From Them. I Wish To Be One Of Them Again.

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

Nations Are Beginning To Look To Some Vague Organization, Some Nebulous Course Of Humanity, To Pay Their Bills And Tell Them What To Do. This Is Not Local Self-government. It Is Not American. It Is Not The Method Which Has Made This Country What It Is. We Can Not Maintain The Western Standard Of Civilization On That Theory. If It Is Supported At All, It Will Have To Be Supported On The Principle Of Individual Responsibility.

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.

The Two Great Political Parties Of The Nation Have Existed For The Purpose, Each In Accordance With Its Own Principles, Of Undertaking To Serve The Interests Of The Whole Nation. Their Members Of The Congress Are Chosen With That Great End In View.

No Enterprise Can Exist For Itself Alone. It Ministers To Some Great Need, It Performs Some Great Service, Not For Itself, But For Others; Or Failing Therein, It Ceases To Be Profitable And Ceases To Exist.

There's More, Much More, To Christmas Than Candlelight And Cheer; It's The Spirit Of Sweet Friendship That Brightens All Year. It's Thoughtfulness And Kindness, It's Hope Reborn Again, For Peace, For Understanding, And For Goodwill To Men!

It Is Only When Men Begin To Worship That They Begin To Grow.

When People Are Bewildered They Tend To Become Credulous.

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.

If You Don't Say Anything, You Won't Be Called On To Repeat It.

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

If You Can Get Enough Votes So That Mine Will Make A Majority, You Can Have It.

Workmen’s Compensation, Hours And Conditions Of Labor Are Cold Consolations, If There Be No Employment.

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The Appropriation Of Public Money Always Is Perfectly Lovely Until Some One Is Asked To Pay The Bill. If We Are To Have A Billion Dollars Of Navy, Half A Billion Of Farm Relief, Etc... The People Will Have To Furnish More Revenue By Paying More Taxes. It Is For Them, Through Their Congress, To Decide How Far They Wish To Go.

The American Revolution Represented The Informed And Mature Convictions Of A Great Mass Of Independent, Liberty-loving, God-fearing People Who Knew Their Rights, And Possessed The Courage To Dare To Maintain Them.

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.

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.

Civilisation And Profits Go Hand In Hand.

The Jews Themselves, Of Whom A Considerable Number Were Already Scattered Throughout The Colonies, Were True To The Teachings Of Their Prophets. The Jewish Faith Is Predominantly The Faith Of Liberty.

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.

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.

Good Government Cannot Be Found On The Bargain-counter. We Have Seen Samples Of Bargain-counter Government In The Past When Low Tax Rates Were Secured By Increasing The Bonded Debt For Current Expenses Or Refusing To Keep Our Institutions Up To The Standard In Repairs, Extensions, Equipment, And Accommodations. I Refuse, And The Republican Party Refuses, To Endorse That Method Of Sham And Shoddy Economy.

The Most Common Commodity In This Country Is Unrealized Potential.

After Order And Liberty, Economy Is One Of The Highest Essentials Of A Free Government.

No Advance, No Progress Can Be Made Beyond These Propositions. If Anyone Wishes To Deny Their Truth Or Their Soundness, The Only Direction In Which He Can Proceed Historically Is Not Forward, But Backward Toward A Time When There Was No Equality, No Rights Of The Individual, No Rule Of The People. Those Who Wish To Proceed In That Direction Cannot Lay Claim To Progress. They Are Reactionary. Their Ideas Are Not More Modern, But More Ancient Than Those Of Our Revolutionary Ancestors.

The Chief Business Of The American People Is Business.

The Budget Idea, I May Admit, Is A Sort Of Obsession With Me. I Believe In Budgets. I Want Other People To Believe In Them. I Have Had A Small One To Run My Own Home; And Besides That, I Am The Head Of The Organization That Makes The Greatest Of All Budgets, That Of The United States Government. Do You Wonder, Then, That At Times I Dream Of Balance Sheets And Sinking Funds?

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.

Nordics Deteriorate When Mixed With Other Races.

A Government Which Requires Of The People The Contribution Of The Bulk Of Their Substance And Rewards Cannot Be Classed As A Free Government.

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School Is Not The End But Only The Beginning Of An Education.

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.

Any Man Who Does Not Like Dogs And Want Them About Does Not Deserve To Be In The White House.

Industry Cannot Flourish If Labor Languish.

The Government Can Supply No Substitute For Enterprise.

Economy Is The Method By Which We Prepare Today To Afford The Improvements Of Tomorrow.

The Suggestion Of Denying Any Measure Of Their Full Political Rights To Such A Great Group Of Our Population As The Colored People Is One Which, However It Might Be Received In Some Other Quarters, Could Not Possibly Be Permitted By One Who Feels A Responsibility For Living Up To The Traditions And Maintaining The Principles Of The Republican Party. Our Constitution Guarantees Equal Rights To All Our Citizens, Without Discrimination On Account Of Race Or Color. I Have Taken My Oath To Support That Constitution.

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.

I Love Vermont Because Of Her Hills And Valleys, Her Scenery And Invigorating Climate, But Most Of All Because Of Her Indomitable People. They Are A Race Of Pioneers Who Have Almost Beggared Themselves To Serve Others. If The Spirit Of Liberty Should Vanish In Other Parts Of The Union And Support Of Our Institutions Should Languish, It Could All Be Replenished From The Generous Store Held By The People Of This Brave Little State Of Vermont.

No Congress Of The United States Ever Assembled, On Surveying The State Of The Union, Has Met With A More Pleasing Prospect Than That Which Appears At The Present Time. In The Domestic Field There Is Tranquillity And Contentment, Harmonious Relations Between Management And Wage Earner, Freedom From Industrial Strife, And The Highest Record Of Years Of Prosperity.

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.

The Man Who Builds A Factory, Builds A Temple.

Those Who Want Their Rights Respected Under The Constitution And The Law Ought To Set The Example Themselves Of Observing The Constitution And The Law. While There May Be Those Of High Intelligence Who Violate The Law At Times, The Barbarian And The Defective Always Violate It. Those Who Disregard The Rules Of Society Are Not Exhibiting A Superior Intelligence, Are Not Promoting Freedom And Independence, Are Not Following The Path Of Civilization, But Are Displaying The Traits Of Ignorance, Of Servitude, Of Savagery, And Treading The Way That Leads Back To The Jungle.

Parties Do Not Maintain Themselves. They Are Maintained By Effort. The Government Is Not Self-existent. It Is Maintained By The Effort Of Those Who Believe In It. The People Of America Believe In American Institutions, The American Form Of Government And The American Method Of Transacting Business.

When A Man Begins To Feel That He Is The Only One Who Can Lead In This Republic, He Is Guilty Of Treason To The Spirit Of Our Institutions.

The Attempt To Regulate, Control, And Prescribe All Manner Of Conduct And Social Relations Is Very Old. It Was Always The Practice Of Primitive Peoples.

The Constitution Is The Sole Source And Guaranty Of National Freedom.

If American Democracy Is To Remain The Greatest Hope Of Humanity, It Must Continue Abundantly In The Faith Of The Bible

It Seems To Me Probable That Of All Our Economic Life The Element On Which We Are Inclined To Place Too Low An Estimate Is Advertising.

It Is Hard To See How A Great Man Can Be An Atheist. . . . We Need To Feel That Behind Us Is Intelligence And Love.

Wherever We Look, The Work Of The Chemist Has Raised The Level Of Our Civilization And Has Increased The Productive Capacity Of The Nation.

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 More I Study It [the Constitution], The More I Have Come To Admire It, Realizing That No Other Document Devised By The Hand Of Man Ever Brought So Much Progress And Happiness To Humanity.

Ultimately Property Rights And Personal Rights Are The Same Thing.

Inflation Is Repudiation.

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.

The Best Help That Benevolence And Philanthropy Can Give Is That Which Induces Everybody To Help Himself.

Restricted Immigration Is Not An Offensive But Purely A Defensive Action. It Is Not Adopted In Criticism Of Others In The Slightest Degree, But Solely For The Purpose Of Protecting Ourselves. We Cast No Aspersions On Any Race Or Creed, But We Must Remember That Every Object Of Our Institutions Of Society And Government Will Fail Unless America Be Kept American.

I Always Figured The American Public Wanted A Solemn Ass For President, So I Went Along With Them.

Some Of The Offers That Have Come To Me Would Never Have Come If I Had Not Been President. That Means These People Are Trying To Hire Not Calvin Coolidge, But A Former President Of The United States. I Can't Make That Kind Of Use Of The Office.... I Can't Do Anything That Might Take Away From The Presidency Any Of Its Dignity, Or Any Of The Faith People Have In It.

In Other Periods Of Depression, It Has Always Been Possible To See Some Things Which Were Solid And Upon Which You Could Base Hope, But As I Look About, I Now See Nothing To Give Ground To Hope-nothing Of Man.

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.

I Should Be Very Sorry To See The United States Holding Anyone In Confinement On Account Of Any Opinion That That Person Might Hold. It Is A Fundamental Tenet Of Our Institutions That People Have A Right To Believe What They Want To Believe And Hold Such Opinions As They Want To Hold Without Having To Answer To Anyone For Their Private Opinion.

The Country Is Not In Good Condition.

Great Depression

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.

Realizing That We Can Not Live Unto Ourselves Alone, We Have Contributed Of Our Resources And Our Counsel To The Relief Of The Suffering And The Settlement Of The Disputes Among The European Nations. Because Of What America Is And What America Has Done, A Firmer Courage, A Higher Hope, Inspires The Heart Of All Humanity.

Civilization And Profit Go Hand In Hand.

Men Speak Of Natural Rights, But I Challenge Any One To Show Where In Nature Any Rights Existed Or Were Recognized Until There Was Established For Their Declaration And Protection A Duly Promulgated Body Of Corresponding Laws.

Your Ability To Face Setbacks And Disappointments Without Giving Up Will Be The Measure Of Your Ability To Succeed.

There Is Far More Danger Of Harm Than There Is Hope Of Good In Any Radical Changes.

We Do Not Need To Import Any Foreign Economic Ideas Or Any Foreign Government. We Had Better Stick To The American Brand Of Government, The American Brand Of Equality, And The American Brand Of Wages. America Had Better Stay American

Patriotism Is Easy To Understand In America. It Means Looking Out For Yourself By Looking Out For Your Country.

A Display Of Reason Rather Than A Threat Of Force Should Be The Determining Factor In The Intercourse Among Nations.

Business Will Be Either Better Or Worse.

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

America Has But One Main Problem -- The Character Of The Men And Women It Shall Produce.

America... Cherishes No Purpose Save To Merit The Favor Of Almighty God.

The Only Hope Of A Short War Is To Prepare For A Long One.

When Each Citizen Submits Himself To The Authority Of Law He Does Not Thereby Decrease His Independence Or Freedom, But Rather Increases It. By Recognizing That He Is A Part Of A Larger Body Which Is Banded Together For A Common Purpose, He Becomes More Than An Individual, He Rises To A New Dignity Of Citizenship. Instead Of Finding Himself Restricted And Confined By Rendering Obedience To Public Law, He Finds Himself Protected And Defended And In The Exercise Of Increased And Increasing Rights.

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.

I Have Done It [appointed Commissions] Regretfully And With The Hope That It Would Be Temporary. But After A Commission Is Established You Find It Always Wants To Enlarge Itself, Employ More People, Is Very Busy With Senators And Congressmen To Impress Upon Them The Great Value Of The Services Of The Commission, And Even When I Talk To People That I Appoint To Commissions And Tell Them I Would Like Them To Go On To Various Boards With The Idea That They May Be Abolished, They Say They Ought To Be Abolished, But When They Have Taken Their Position They Very Soon Seem To Change Their Mind.

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.

The Door Of Opportunity Swings Wide Open In Our Country. Through It, In Constant Flow, Go Those Who Toil. America Recognizes No Aristocracy Save Those Who Work. The Badge Of Service Is The Sole Requirement For Admission To The Ranks Of Our Nobility.

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

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.

It Takes A Great Man To Be A Good Listener.

In Its Main Features The Declaration Of Independence Is A Great Spiritual Document. It Is A Declaration Not Of Material But Of Spiritual Conceptions. Equality, Liberty, Popular Sovereignty, The Rights Of Man - These Are Not Elements Which We Can See And Touch. They Are Ideals. They Have Their Source And Their Roots In The Religious Convictions. They Belong To The Unseen World. Unless The Faith Of The American People In These Religious Convictions Is To Endure, The Principles Of Our Declaration Will Perish. We Can Not Continue To Enjoy The Result If We Neglect And Abandon The Cause.

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.

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

Advertising Ministers To The Spiritual Side Of Trade.

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.

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.

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.

The Duties Which A Police Officer Owes To The State Are Of A Most Exacting Nature. No One Is Compelled To Choose The Profession Ofa Police Officer, But Having Chosen It, Everyone Is Obliged To Live Up To The Standard Of Its Requirements. To Join In That High Enterprise Means The Surrender Of Much Individual Freedom.

The Government Of A Country Never Gets Ahead Of The Religion Of A Country. There Is No Way By Which We Can Substitute The Authority Of The Law For The Virtues Of Men.

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.

[may] This Civic And Social Landmark [the Washington, D.c., Jewish Community Center] ... Be A Constant Reminder Of The Inspiring Service That Has Been Rendered To Civilization By Men And Women Of The Jewish Faith. May [visitors] Recall The Long Array Of Those Who Have Been Eminent In Statecraft, In Science, In Literature, In Art, In The Professions, In Business, In Finance, In Philanthropy And In The Spiritual Life Of The World.

The Prohibition Amendment To The Constitution Requires The Congress. And The President To Provide Adequate Laws To Prevent Its Violation. It Is My Duty To Enforce Such Laws.to Prevent Smuggling, The Coast Card Should Be Greatly Strengthened, And A Supply Of Swift Power Boats Should Be Provided. The Major Sources Of Production Should Be Rigidly Regulated, And Every Effort Should Be Made To Suppress Interstate Traffic... It Is The Duty Of A Citizen Not Only To Observe The Law But To Let It Be Known That He Is Opposed To Its Violation.

Congress And The President

Life Is One Darn Thing After Another.

We Have Got So Many Regulatory Laws Already That In General I Feel That We Would Be Just As Well Off If We Didn't Have Any More.

Silence Can Never Be Misquoted.

You Know, I Have Found In The Course Of A Long Public Life That The Things I Did Not Say Never Hurt Me.

Wherever Despotism Abounds, The Sources Of Public Information Are The First To Be Brought Under Its Control.

War Is The Rule Of Force, And Peace Is The Reign Of Law.

The Chief Business Of America Is Business.

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