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The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty. ” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with.

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Calvin Coolidge

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.

Government, Largely, Larger, Play, Practice, Species
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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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