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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
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
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
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity 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
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
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
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
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
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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