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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Calvin Coolidge

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
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
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
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Politics Yourself
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
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
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong

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