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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.

Calvin Coolidge

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation
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
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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Difficult Greatness Men
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
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
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward

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