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

Calvin Coolidge

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
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Funny Humor Law Myself People
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
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
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
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
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
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery

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