"What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government."
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"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."
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"I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement."
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"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."
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"The world is full of educated derelicts."
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"Inflation is repudiation."
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"Anytime you don't want anything you get it."
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"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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"I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman preeminent in the history of our nation who did not reach their place through toil. I cannot think of anything that represents the American people as a whole so adequately as honest work."
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"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."
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"A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations."
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"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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"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."
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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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"Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind."
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"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."
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"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
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"Advertising is the life of trade."
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"It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love."
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