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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

Calvin Coolidge

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
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Charity Honor Ideal Peace
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
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 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
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
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
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
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Believe Equality Government Justice Ourselves Religion Right Truth
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation
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 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
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
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery

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