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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

Calvin Coolidge

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
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
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
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Country Government Opportunity
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
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
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
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
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
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

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