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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.

Calvin Coolidge

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
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
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Himself Learning Lesson Oneself Word
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Country Government Opportunity

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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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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