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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

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
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
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
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics
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
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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 collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
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
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
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
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

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