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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

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 men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
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
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
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
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation

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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