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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.

Calvin Coolidge

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
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
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
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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
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
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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Believe Equality Government Justice Ourselves Religion Right Truth
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment

Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.

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Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.

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