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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

Calvin Coolidge

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
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
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
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
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Funny Humor Law Myself People
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
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
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men

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