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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

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
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
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
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
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
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Happiness Positive Run Thinking Yourself
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save
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
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Believe Equality Government Justice Ourselves Religion Right Truth

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