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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.

Calvin Coolidge

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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
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
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
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
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
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Government Liberty Necessary People Protection
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money

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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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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