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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
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
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Determination Force Reason
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
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
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

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

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