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Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

Calvin Coolidge

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
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
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
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
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
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
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
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
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

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