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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
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
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Government Liberty Necessary People Protection
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Easy Government Money
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
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
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong

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