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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.

Calvin Coolidge

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Politics Yourself
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Democracy Faith Greatness Hope Humanity Religious
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
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
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
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
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
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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
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
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 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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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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