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It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
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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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Direction Hard Work Knowledge Maturity Simplicity Wisdom
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.

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