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Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Calvin Coolidge

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
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
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Government Liberty Necessary People Protection
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics

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