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

Calvin Coolidge

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
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
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
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
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
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
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
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
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 Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present

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