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Duty is not collective; it is personal.

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
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
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
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
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
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
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
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
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
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
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
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
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner

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