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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Calvin Coolidge

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
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
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
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
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
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
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
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule
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
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit

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