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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

Calvin Coolidge

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
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
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
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
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
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
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
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security

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