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Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
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
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
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Character Civilization Government
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
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
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality
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
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
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

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

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