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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

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
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
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
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
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
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
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Happiness Positive Run Thinking Yourself
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
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Character Civilization Government
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
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
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment

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