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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.

Calvin Coolidge

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
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
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
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
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity

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