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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
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
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
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
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Funny Humor Law Myself People
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

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