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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.

Calvin Coolidge

Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
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
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
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
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
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 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

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