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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Calvin Coolidge

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
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
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
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
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
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
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
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

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