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The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

Calvin Coolidge

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
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
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 nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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Act Powerful Togetherness
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
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right

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