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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Himself Learning Lesson Oneself Word
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
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.
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Difficult Greatness Men
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
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Character Civilization Government
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
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
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
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
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Country Government Opportunity
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution

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