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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
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
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 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 right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
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
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
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
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
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
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal

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