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Duty is not collective; it is personal.

Calvin Coolidge

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Politics Yourself
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
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
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
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
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
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 dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success

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