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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.

Calvin Coolidge

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
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
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
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
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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

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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