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

Calvin Coolidge

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
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
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
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
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 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
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification

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