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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

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
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
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
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
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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Difficult Greatness Men
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
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
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
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
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
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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning

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