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

Calvin Coolidge

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
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Charity Honor Ideal Peace
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
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
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
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
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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Forever Freedom Law Religious
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
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Easy Government Money
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
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
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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Difficult Greatness Men
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Country Government Opportunity

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