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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.

Calvin Coolidge

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Democracy Faith Greatness Hope Humanity Religious
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
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
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
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
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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Bills Goodness Important Man
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
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
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
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
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time

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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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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