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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.

Calvin Coolidge

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
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
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
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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Act Powerful Togetherness
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
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
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
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
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself

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