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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

Calvin Coolidge

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Responsibility Right Simplicity
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Effort Growth Intellectual Work
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Himself Learning Lesson Oneself Word
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 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
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
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Job People Work
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Determination Force Reason

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