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

Calvin Coolidge

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
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
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
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
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
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
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
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
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

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