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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

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
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.
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Old People Practice Relation
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
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
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
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
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
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
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule

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.

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