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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Calvin Coolidge

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
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
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
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
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
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
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Happiness Positive Run Thinking Yourself
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
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
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
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
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

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