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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Calvin Coolidge

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
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Funny Humor Law Myself People
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
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 display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Determination Force Reason
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
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
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
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
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
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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