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Duty is not collective; it is personal.

Calvin Coolidge

You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Happiness Positive Run Thinking Yourself
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Citizenship Failure Government People
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
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
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
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
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
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
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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Difficult Greatness Men

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