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You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.

Calvin Coolidge

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
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
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
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 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
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work

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