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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.

Calvin Coolidge

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man
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
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
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 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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law

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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