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You don’t have to explain something you never said.

Calvin Coolidge

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
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
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
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
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
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present

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