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We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
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
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
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
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
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
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
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
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
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
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity

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