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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

Calvin Coolidge

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
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
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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
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
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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
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
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

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