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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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Act Powerful Togetherness
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning

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