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

Calvin Coolidge

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
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
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
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
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
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
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
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
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
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

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