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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man
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
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.
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Control Government Independent Liberty Selfish Unity
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 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
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
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit

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