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The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
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
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
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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Forever Freedom Law Religious
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
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Collective Duty Personal
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
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
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Country Government Opportunity

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