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If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.

Calvin Coolidge

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
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
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
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
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
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
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
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
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
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
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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Forever Freedom Law Religious
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
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching

If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.

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If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.

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