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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

Calvin Coolidge

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
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
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Direction Hard Work Knowledge Maturity Simplicity Wisdom
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
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
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
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
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 men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
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
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Charity Honor Ideal Peace
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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
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
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
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 right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Happiness Positive Run Thinking Yourself
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
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
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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Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree

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