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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

Calvin Coolidge

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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Politics Yourself
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree
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
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
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
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
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
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War

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