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You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.

Calvin Coolidge

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
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Determination Force Reason
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
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
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
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Government Liberty Necessary People Protection
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
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
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification

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