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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.

Calvin Coolidge

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
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
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself

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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