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You don’t have to explain something you never said.

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
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Himself Learning Lesson Oneself Word
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Old People Practice Relation
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
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
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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Easy Government Money
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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 government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Government Liberty Necessary People Protection
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity

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