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A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Calvin Coolidge

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Democracy Faith Greatness Hope Humanity Religious
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
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
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
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics
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
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
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
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
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
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
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself

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