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Duty is not collective; it is personal.

Calvin Coolidge

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Himself Learning Lesson Oneself Word
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Charity Honor Ideal Peace
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Government Liberty Necessary People Protection
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning

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