"All growth depends upon activity."
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"Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow."
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"You don't have to explain something you never said."
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"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."
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"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."
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"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."
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"It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation."
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"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."
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"I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people."
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"I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field."
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"I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny."
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"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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"After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government."
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"There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns."
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"Character is the only secure foundation of the state."
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"I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more."
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"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."
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"Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind."
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"One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights."
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"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."
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