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Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

— Calvin Coolidge Attributed

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There is no substitute for a militant freedom. The only alternative is submission and slavery.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Address at Holy Cross (1919)

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Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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