While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative abili…

Calvin Coolidge
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While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more tolerable and life more complete, has to be supplied by the genius of the people themselves. The Government can supply no substitute for enterprise. ✨ Calvin Coolidge (1925). America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses
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