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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Calvin Coolidge

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
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
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
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
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
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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
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
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong

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