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Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

Calvin Coolidge

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
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Constitution Freedom Nation
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
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
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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Control Firsts Information Source
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
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
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
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Easy Government Money
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
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Action Government People Theory Wrong

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