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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
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
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
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
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
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
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
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
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself

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