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The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Calvin Coolidge

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Responsibility Right Simplicity
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
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
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
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
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
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
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
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Easy Government Money
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save
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

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