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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.

Calvin Coolidge

If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Citizenship Failure Government People
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
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Easy Government Money
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
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work

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