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Calvin Coolidge

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
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
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
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
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Country Freedom Necessary People Principle Security
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
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

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