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Duty is not collective; it is personal.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
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
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
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
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
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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