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In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

Calvin Coolidge

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
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
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth
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.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
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
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
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
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
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
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
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
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
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Charity Honor Ideal Peace
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

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