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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.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
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
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Politics Yourself
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
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
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
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Believe Equality Government Justice Ourselves Religion Right Truth
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
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
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite

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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