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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.

Calvin Coolidge

Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Believe Equality Government Justice Ourselves Religion Right Truth
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
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
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
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
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Democracy Faith Greatness Hope Humanity Religious
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Himself Learning Lesson Oneself Word
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment

America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.

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