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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
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 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
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
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
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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree
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
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
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
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price

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