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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
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
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Funny Humor Law Myself People
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
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Believe Equality Government Justice Ourselves Religion Right Truth
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
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
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
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
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
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule

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