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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.

Calvin Coolidge

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
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Goodness Government Important Liberty
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
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
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
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
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Happiness Positive Run Thinking Yourself
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.
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Forever Freedom Law Religious
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Politics Yourself
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Himself Learning Lesson Oneself Word
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
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
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
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
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
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
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

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