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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
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
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
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
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
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

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