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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Calvin Coolidge

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Believe Equality Government Justice Ourselves Religion Right Truth
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
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
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
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
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
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
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
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Democracy Faith Greatness Hope Humanity Religious
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
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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
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
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics
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
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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
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
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
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price

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