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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

Calvin Coolidge

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
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
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
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
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work

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