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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Calvin Coolidge

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Happiness Positive Run Thinking Yourself
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
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
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
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
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
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

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