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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.

Calvin Coolidge

Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Old People Practice Relation
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
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
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
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
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man
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
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Character Civilization Government
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
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need

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