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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

Calvin Coolidge

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
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
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
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
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
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
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
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
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
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

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