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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 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
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
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
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Easy Government Money
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
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity

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

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