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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Calvin Coolidge

The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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Forever Freedom Law Religious
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
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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Important Oneself Reality
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
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
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
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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery

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