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Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a question streams a wonderful fragrance.

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Calvin Coolidge

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?

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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.

Character, Create, Government, Nation, Responsibility

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Bewildered, Credulous, Gullibility, People, Tend

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Democratic, Force, Ideal, Idealism, Patriotic

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.

Characteristically, Men, People, Place, Represents, Thinking

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Force, Intercourse, Nations, Reason, Should
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