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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

Calvin Coolidge

Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
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
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
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
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
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
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need

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