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

Calvin Coolidge

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Determination Force Reason
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
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
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
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
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
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Old People Practice Relation
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself

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