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Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

Calvin Coolidge

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
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
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
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Charity Honor Ideal Peace
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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Country Difficult Faith God Ourselves Support Teaching
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
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
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
Life is one darn thing after another.
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Life One Liner

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