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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Government Justification
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Government Liberty Necessary People Protection
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
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
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
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save
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
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
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
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
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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Citizenship Failure Government People
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People

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