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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Calvin Coolidge

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Politics Yourself
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Happiness Positive Run Thinking Yourself
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
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
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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Forever Freedom Law Religious
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time

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