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Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

Calvin Coolidge

You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Choice Knowledge Yourself
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Thinking Yourself
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.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

End Pay People Rich Talk
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Cold Employment
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Government Liberty Necessary Order
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
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Determination Force Reason
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Character Civilization Government
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Control People Wild

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