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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
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
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
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
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
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
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
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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Act Powerful Togetherness
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

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