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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

Calvin Coolidge

Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree
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
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Old People Practice Relation
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth

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