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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Calvin Coolidge

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Funny Humor Law Myself People
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation
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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
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
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
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
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
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
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right

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