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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

Calvin Coolidge

Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Old People Practice Relation
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
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
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
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
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
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
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
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 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
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People

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