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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

Calvin Coolidge

You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
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
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Funny Humor Law Myself People
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
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
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Country Government Opportunity
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
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
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
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

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