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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

Calvin Coolidge

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
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
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
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
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
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
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
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
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

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