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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

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
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
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
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
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
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
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
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
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
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
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
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
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
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule

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