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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.

Calvin Coolidge

If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Citizenship Failure Government People
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
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
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
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
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
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
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
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
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men

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