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Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

Calvin Coolidge

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
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 foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
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
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Country Government Opportunity
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
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
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 greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman

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