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Silence can never be misquoted.

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
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
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
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
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Funny Humor Law Myself People
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
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
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
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
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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Difficult Greatness Men
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present

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