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

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
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
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
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
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Character Civilization Government
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
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
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree
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

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

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