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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

Calvin Coolidge

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Country Government Opportunity
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
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 can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity

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