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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Calvin Coolidge

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
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
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
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
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
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
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
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
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
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men

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