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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

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
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
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
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
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
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
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
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
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean 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
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training

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