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We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

Calvin Coolidge

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
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 you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Happiness Positive Run Thinking Yourself
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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Act Powerful Togetherness
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
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
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
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
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War

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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