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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
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
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
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
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching

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