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Nations Are Beginning To Look To Some Vague Organization, Some Nebulous Course Of Humanity, To Pay Their Bills And Tell Them What To Do. This Is Not Local Self-government. It Is Not American. It Is Not The Method Which Has Made This Country What It Is. We Can Not Maintain The Western Standard Of Civilization On That Theory. If It Is Supported At All, It Will Have To Be Supported On The Principle Of Individual Responsibility.

-Calvin Coolidge

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Nations Are Beginning To Look To Some Vague Organization, Some Nebulous Course Of Humanity, To Pay Their Bills And Tell Them What To Do. This Is Not Local Self-government. It Is Not American. It Is Not The Method Which Has Made This Country What It Is. We Can Not Maintain The Western Standard Of Civilization On That Theory. If It Is Supported At All, It Will Have To Be Supported On The Principle Of Individual Responsibility.

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Wherever Despotism Abounds, The Sources Of Public Information Are The First To Be Brought Under Its Control.

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I Do Not Want To See Any Of The People Cringing Supplicants For The Favor Of The Government, When They Should All Be Independent Masters Of Their Own Destiny.

Because Of What America Is And What America Has Done, A Firmer Courage, A Higher Hope, Inspires The Heart Of All Humanity.

Whether One Traces His Americanism Back Three Centuries To The Mayflower, Or Three Years To The Steerage, Is Not Half So Important As Whether His Americanism Of Today Is Real And Genuine. No Matter By What Various Crafts We Came Here, We Are All Now In The Same Boat.

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Life Is One Darn Thing After Another.

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I Did Not See The Sense In Chasing A Little White Ball Around A Field.

Nature Is Inexorable. If Men Do Not Follow The Truth They Cannot Live.

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Those Who Trust To Chance Must Abide By The Results Of Chance.

A Colored Man Is Precisely As Much Entitled To Submit His Candidacy In A Party Primary, As Is Any Other Citizen. The Decision Must Be Made By The Constituents To Whom He Offers Himself, And By Nobody Else.

The Only Difference Between A Mob And A Trained Army Is Organization.

What Men Owe To The Love And Help Of Good Women Can Never Be Told.

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The Country Is Not In Good Condition.

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We Cannot Do Everything At Once, But We Can Do Something At Once.

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The Two Great Political Parties Of The Nation Have Existed For The Purpose, Each In Accordance With Its Own Principles, Of Undertaking To Serve The Interests Of The Whole Nation. Their Members Of The Congress Are Chosen With That Great End In View.

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We Identify The Flag With Almost Everything We Hold Dear On Earth, Peace, Security, Liberty, Our Family, Our Friends, Our Home. . .but When We Look At Our Flag And Behold It Emblazoned With All Our Rights We Must Remember That It Is Equally A Symbol Of Our Duties. Every Glory That We Associate With It Is The Result Of Duty Done.

It Would Be Difficult To Conceive A Finer Example Of True Sport.

The People Cannot Look To Legislation Generally For Success. Industry, Thrift, Character, Are Not Conferred By Act Or Resolve. Government Cannot Relieve From Toil. It Can Provide No Substitute For The Rewards Of Service. It Can, Of Course, Care For The Defective And Recognize Distinguished Merit. The Normal Must Care For Themselves. Self-government Means Self-support.

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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.

There Is No Justification For Public Interference With Purely Private Concerns.

It Is Hard To See How A Great Man Can Be An Atheist. Without The Sustaining Influence Of Faith In A Divine Power We Could Have Little Faith In Ourselves. We Need To Feel That Behind Us Is Intelligence And Love. Doubters Do Not Achieve; Skeptics Do Not Contribute; Cynics Do Not Create. Faith Is The Great Motive Power, And No Man Realizes His Full Possibilities Unless He Has The Deep Conviction That Life Is Eternally Important, And That His Work, Well Done, Is A Part Of An Unending Plan.

The More I Study It [the Constitution], The More I Have Come To Admire It, Realizing That No Other Document Devised By The Hand Of Man Ever Brought So Much Progress And Happiness To Humanity.

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There Is No Right To Strike Against The Public Safety By Anybody, Anywhere, Any Time.

One Of The First Lessons A President Has To Learn Is That Every Word He Says Weighs A Ton.

It Is Not In Violence And Crime That Our Greatest Danger Lies. These Evils Are So Perfectly Apparent That They Very Quickly Arouse The Moral Power Of The People For Their Suppression. A Far More Serious Danger Lurks In The Shirking Of Those Responsibilities Of Citizenship, Where The Evil May Not Be So Noticeable But Is More Insidious And Likely To Be More Devastating.

If A Painting Of A Tree Was Only The Exact Representation Of The Original, So That It Looked Just Like The Tree, There Would Be No Reason For Making It; We Might As Well Look At The Tree Itself. But The Painting, If It Is Of The Right Sort, Gives Something That Neither A Photograph Nor A View Of The Tree Conveys. It Emphasizes Something Of Character, Quality, Individuality. We Are Not Lost In Looking At Thorns And Defects; We Catch A Vision Of The Grandeur And Beauty Of A King Of The Forest.

In A Republic The First Rule For The Guidance Of The Citizen Is Obedience Of The Law.

There Is No Force So Democratic As The Force Of An Ideal.

One Of The Greatest Perils To An Extensive Republic Is The Disregard Of Individual Rights.

No Enterprise Can Exist For Itself Alone.

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Works Which Endure Come From The Soul Of The People. The Mighty In Their Pride Walk Alone To Destruction. The Humble Walk Hand In Hand With Providence To Immortality. Their Works Survive.

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.

At First I Intended To Become A Student Of The Senate Rules And I Did Learn Much About Them, But I Soon Found That The Senate Hadbut One Fixed Rule, Subject To Exceptions Of Course, Which Was To The Effect That The Senate Would Do Anything It Wanted To Do Whenever It Wanted To Do It.

Coincident With The Right Of Individual Property Under The Provisions Of Our Government Is The Right Of Individual Property. . . . When Once The Right Of The Individual To Liberty And Equality Is Admitted, There Is No Escape From The Conclusion That He Alone Is Entitled To The Rewards Of His Own Industry. Any Other Conclusion Would Necessarily Imply Either Privilege Or Servitude.

I Want The People Of America To Be Able To Work Less For The Government And More For Themselves. I Want Them To Have The Rewards Of Their Own Industry. This Is The Chief Meaning Of Freedom. Until We Can Reestablish A Condition Under Which The Earnings Of The People Can Be Kept By The People, We Are Bound To Suffer A Very Severe And Distinct Curtailment Of Our Liberty.

We Want Wealth, But There Are Many Other Things We Want Very Much More. Among Them Are Peace, Honor, Charity, And Idealism.

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