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

Calvin Coolidge

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
If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Citizenship Failure Government People
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
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Direction Hard Work Knowledge Maturity Simplicity Wisdom
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
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
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
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself

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

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