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Silence can never be misquoted.

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
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
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
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
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
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
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
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

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