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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

Calvin Coolidge

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
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
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
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
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
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
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
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

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