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

Calvin Coolidge

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
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
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
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
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security

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