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

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Charity Honor Ideal Peace
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
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge 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
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence

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

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