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Duty is not collective; it is personal.

Calvin Coolidge

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Democracy Faith Greatness Hope Humanity Religious
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Direction Hard Work Knowledge Maturity Simplicity Wisdom
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Citizenship Failure Government People
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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Difficult Greatness Men
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
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
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity

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