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You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
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
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
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
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
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
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
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
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Himself Learning Lesson Oneself Word
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity

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