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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.

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
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive people.
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Old People Practice Relation
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
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Care Country Easy Patriot Understand
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts. Self-government means self-reliance.
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Freedom Government Result Save
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
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 Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Direction Hard Work Knowledge Maturity Simplicity Wisdom
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
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
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
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
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty

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