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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

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
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
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Government Liberty Necessary People Protection
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
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
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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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.

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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.

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