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American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
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
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
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
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong
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
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
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
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
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
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

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

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