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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge

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
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Happiness Positive Run 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
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
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
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
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
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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
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
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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

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