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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.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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 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
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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Forever Freedom Law Religious
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
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
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
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious

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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