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

Calvin Coolidge

Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Art End Government Mean Politics
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Government Liberty Necessary Order
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
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
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Effort Growth Intellectual Work
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Good Woman Help Men
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.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Danger Direction Economic Failure
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.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Government Liberty Necessary People Protection
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
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
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Character Civilization Government
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Thinking Yourself

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