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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.

Calvin Coolidge

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
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
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
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
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics
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
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
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
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Believe Equality Government Justice Ourselves Religion Right Truth
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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
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
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time

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