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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.

Calvin Coolidge

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
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 want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
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
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
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
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Direction Hard Work Knowledge Maturity Simplicity Wisdom
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
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
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 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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