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You don’t have to explain something you never said.

Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
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 best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
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
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Funny Humor Law Myself People
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Himself Learning Lesson Oneself Word
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
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save

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