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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Calvin Coolidge

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Charity Honor Ideal Peace
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
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
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
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
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery

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