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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
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 right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
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
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
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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Act Powerful Togetherness
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
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

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