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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.

Calvin Coolidge

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Citizenship Failure Government People
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
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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Choice Knowledge Yourself
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
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
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
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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Difficult Greatness Men
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
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

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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