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

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
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
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
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
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
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

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